Name

substring — Extract a substring

Synopsis

string substring ( string  STRING ,
  integer  START ,
  integer  LENGTH );

Parameters

string STRING

integer START

integer LENGTH

Return

string

Description

Extract a substring of the string STRING, starting at START after the first one with length of at most LENGTH.

Usage

  substring ("some text", 5, 2) -> "te"
  substring ("some text", 42, 2) -> ""