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Text.substring

substringstartlength

Group: Selections
Aliases: mid, slice, substring

Documentation​

Creates a new Text by selecting the specified range of the input.

Arguments​

  • start: the character position to start the substring at. 0-based index. Has support for negative values.
  • length: the number of characters to include from start.

Returns​

Part of the selected Text starting at start and stopping after length.

Examples​

Various different ways to take part of "Hello World!"​

      "Hello World!".substring 3 2 == "lo"
      "Hello World!".substring 5 Nothing == " World!"
      "Hello World!".substring 5 7 == " World!"
      "Hello World!".substring -7 3 == " Wo"