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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.
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