substring/4—retrieve a substring of a specified length beginning at a specified offset

The substring/4 function retrieves a substring of a specified length beginning at a specified offset.

$NEWSTR=substring($STR,$SKIP,$LEN)

substring/4 arguments

Argument	Mode	Type	Description
`$STR`	Input	STRING	Specifies the base string within which you want to retrieve another partial string that starts after `$SKIP`
`$SKIP`	Input	INTEGER	Specifies the number of characters to skip in the base string before `$NEWSTR` begins
`$LEN`	Input	INTEGER	Specifies the length of `$NEWSTR`
`$NEWSTR`	Output	STRING	Retrieved string

Use the substring/4 function to retrieve part of the string $STR into $NEWSTR. The retrieved part of the string starts $SKIP characters from the start of $STR and is $LEN characters long.

substring/4 example

$MM = substring($YYYYMMDD,4,2);

substring/4—retrieve a substring of a specified length beginning at a specified offset

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