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<h2>substring</h2>
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<H3>Syntax:</H3>
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<pre class="syntax">substring (<i>thisString, start, numCharacters</i>);</pre>
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<H3>Purpose:</H3>
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Makes a new string, containing 0 or more characters from the string <i>thisString</i>. The new string will start with the character at position <i>start</i> and be <i>numCharacters</i> long. Note that the value of <i>start</i> is zero-based... the first character in the string is character 0, the second is character 1 and so on.
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<H3>Return value:</H3>
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The function returns the new string.
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<H3>Example:</H3>
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<pre>var a = substring ("123456789", 2, 5);
# a now contains the string "34567"
var b = "Oi! SLUDGE is great!";
var c = substring (b, 4, stringLength (b) - 4);
# c now contains the string "SLUDGE is great!"</pre>
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<H3>See also:</H3>
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<a href="stringLength.html">stringLength</a>
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