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String.substr

Availability

Flash Player 5.

Usage

myString.substr(start, [length])

Parameters

start An integer that indicates the position of the first character in myString to be used to create the substring. If start is a negative number, the starting position is determined from the end of the string, where the -1 is the last character.

length The number of characters in the substring being created. If length is not specified, the substring includes all of the characters from the start to the end of the string.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Method; returns the characters in a string from the index specified in the start parameter through the number of characters specified in the length parameter. The substr method does not change the string specified by myString, it returns a new string.