Manipulation of cursor data
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My cursor has this data now

    {"":{"gid":102,
    "names":{"firstName":"Stive",
    "middleInitial":"Jr",
    "lastName":"Martin"},
    "job":{"departmentID":102,
    "jobTitleID":100,
    "hireDate":"1/02/2000",
    "terminationDate":"1/12/2007"}, 
     "beeper":"5656",
     "email1":"info@soft-amis.com",
     "fax":"21-321-23223",
     "phoneMobile":"32-434-3433",
    "phoneOffice":"82-900-8993"},
    "login":{"employeeID":"eID102",
    "password":"password",
    "superUser":true,
    "lastLoginDate":"1/12/2007",
    "regexp":{},
     "date":{}},
    "comment":{"PCDATA":"comment"},
    "roles":[{"role":102},
    {"role":103}]}}

I want to remove first 4 characters ie **{"":** and last character **}** 

Could someone please help me with this.

Thanks