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String.substring

Availability

Flash Player 5.

Usage

myString.substring(from, to)

Parameters

from An integer that indicates the position of the first character of myString used to create the substring. Valid values for from are 0 through string.length - 1. If from is a negative value, 0 is used.

to An integer that is 1+ the index of the last character in myString to be extracted. Valid values for to are 1 through string.length. The character indexed by the to parameter is not included in the extracted string. If this parameter is omitted, string.length is used. If this parameter is a negative value, 0 is used.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Method; returns a string consisting of the characters between the points specified by the from and to parameters. If the to parameter is not specified, the end of the substring is the end of the string. If the value of from equals the value of to, the method returns an empty string. If the value of from is greater than the value of to, the parameters are automatically swapped before the function executes and the original value is unchanged.