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Tag Link	[String_Extract]	Category	String
Type	Substitution	Source Available	No
Support	Preferred	Version	2.5
Change	Unchanged	Data Source	Any
Output Type	String	Security	None
Implementation	LCAPI	Sets	Lasso 8.5, Lasso 8.0, Lasso 7.0, Lasso 6.0, Lasso 5.0, Lasso 3.x, Lasso 2.5

▼ Description

[String_Extract] takes three parameters: a string, a -StartPosition keyword/value parameter, and a -EndPosition keyword/value parameter. Returns a substring from -StartPosition to -EndPosition.

Note: This tag performs a similar operation to [String->SubString].

▼ Syntax

[String_Extract: 'String Value',
-StartPosition=Position,
-EndPosition=Position]

▼ Parameters

Required Parameters
String Value	The string which is to be modified.
-StartPosition	The character index of the start of the extracted string.
-EndPosition	The character index of the end of the extracted string.
Optional Parameters
Encoding Keyword	Specifies the encoding for the tag's return value. Tags are encoded using -EncodeHTML by default if their value is output on a format file. No encoding is applied to nested tags unless an explicity encoding keyword is specified. One of -EncodeBreak, -EncodeHTML, -EncodeNone, -EncodeRaw, -EncodeSmart, -EncodeStrictURL, -EncodeURL, -EncodeXML.

▼ Examples

To extract a portion of a string:

Use the [String_Extract] tag. The following example extracts five characters from the string, starting at position 5.

[String_Extract: 'String Value', -StartPosition=5, -EndPosition=9]

ng Va

▼ Related Tags

Substitution
[String] [String_CharFromName] [String_Concatenate] [String_EndsWith] [String_FindPosition] [String_FindRegExp] [String_GetUnicodeVersion] [String_Insert] [String_IsAlpha]	[String_IsAlphaNumeric] [String_IsDigit] [String_IsHexdigit] [String_IsLower] [String_IsNumeric] [String_IsPunctuation] [String_IsSpace] [String_IsUpper] [String_Length]	[String_LowerCase] [String_Remove] [String_RemoveLeading] [String_RemoveTrailing] [String_Replace] [String_ReplaceRegExp] [String_UpperCase] [String_ValidCharset]
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[String->Append] [String->BeginsWith] [String->CharDigitValue] [String->CharName] [String->CharType] [String->Compare] [String->CompareCodePointOrder] [String->Contains] [String->CountChar32] [String->Digit] [String->EndsWith] [String->Equals] [String->Find] [String->FoldCase] [String->Get] [String->GetNumericValue] [String->Integer] [String->IsAlnum]	[String->IsAlpha] [String->IsBase] [String->IsCntrl] [String->IsDigit] [String->IsLower] [String->IsPrint] [String->IsSpace] [String->IsTitle] [String->IsUAlphabetic] [String->IsULowerCase] [String->IsUWhiteSpace] [String->IsUpper] [String->IsWhiteSpace] [String->Lowercase] [String->Merge] [String->PadLeading] [String->PadTrailing] [String->Remove]	[String->RemoveLeading] [String->RemoveTrailing] [String->Replace] [String->Reverse] [String->Size] [String->Split] [String->Substring] [String->TitleCase] [String->ToLower] [String->ToTitle] [String->ToUpper] [String->Trim] [String->Unescape] [String->Uppercase] [String->WasKeyword] [String->isUUpperCase]

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[RegExp]
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[RegExp->AppendReplacement] [RegExp->AppendTail] [RegExp->Find] [RegExp->FindPattern] [RegExp->GroupCount] [RegExp->IgnoreCase]	[RegExp->Input] [RegExp->MatchPosition] [RegExp->MatchString] [RegExp->Matches] [RegExp->MatchesStart] [RegExp->Output]	[RegExp->ReplaceAll] [RegExp->ReplaceFirst] [RegExp->ReplacePattern] [RegExp->Reset] [RegExp->Split]