substring

Format: substring( text, offset, len )

Arguments: (text) text Input text string

(int) offset Starting location of the substring

(int) len Length of the substring

Returns: (text) The portion of text beginning at offset and containing len characters

Examples: substring("A text string",0,3) = A t

substring("A text string",2,7) = text st

substring("A text string",2,100) = text string

substring("A text string",100,7) = (null text string "")

See Also: find