substr

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title: Substring description: published: true date: 2023-03-16T23:12:22.988Z tags: editor: markdown dateCreated: 2023-03-16T22:30:26.743Z

substr

The substr native AI script function returns a substring of the input string.

Syntax

(substring: s)substr(string: s, start: f, length: f)

Arguments

• string (string): The input string.
• start (float): The index of the first character to copy.
• length (float): The length of the returned substring.

Return value

• substring (string): A substring of the input string starting at character start and length characters long.

Example

($str)result = substr("Hello, world!", 7, 5);

This example code returns the substring "world".