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strsub

Description

Extract a substring of text from a string.

Function prototype

string strsub <string:Text> <int:StartAt> <int:nChars>

Arguments

Name Type Comment
Text string A text string.
StartAt int The position in the string (zero-based) from which to begin extracting the substring.
nChars int The number of characters to extract from the Text argument.

Return value

A string containing the desired range of the Text string.

Example

echo <strsub "A B C D 1 2 3 4" 4 7>

… the output of which is written to the event log by echo as:

C D 1 2

Comments

None.

See also