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Tag Link	[String->Substring]	Category	String
Type	Member	Source Available	No
Support	Preferred	Version	5.0
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

▼ Description

[String->Substring] returns a substring. The start of the substring is defined by the first parameter and the length of the substring is defined by the second parameter. Requires two integer parameters.

▼ Syntax

[String Variable->(Substring: Offset, Length)]

▼ Parameters

Required Parameters
Offset	The starting index of the substring to be returned.
Optional Parameters
Length	The length of the substring which is to be returned. If omitted, defaults to returning the remainder of the string.

▼ Examples

To return the first 1024 characters from a field:

Use the [String->Substring] tag to return the first 1024 characters of a field value. The field Description is stored in a variable by the same name and then trimmed to 1024 characters.

[Var: 'Description'=(Field: 'Description')]
[(Var:'Description')->(Substring: 1, 1024)]

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Substitution
[String] [String_CharFromName] [String_Concatenate] [String_EndsWith] [String_Extract] [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->TitleCase] [String->ToLower] [String->ToTitle] [String->ToUpper] [String->Trim] [String->Unescape] [String->Uppercase] [String->WasKeyword] [String->isUUpperCase]

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Substitution
[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]