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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.
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