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Substrings

Substrings are portions of a character string.

They are selected by specifying a numeric range enclosed in parentheses such as

(start-n:length-n)

where

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(start-n:length-n) is an expression that specifies a count of alphanumeric characters from the beginning of a string and a length:

start-n specifies the start of the substring as indicated by n, which is the number of alphanumeric characters from the beginning of a string or referenced field.

length-n specifies the number of alphanumeric characters for the substring as indicated by n. This is the length of the substring.

 

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