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function::substr
Name
function::substr — Returns a substring
Synopsis
substr:string(str:string,start:long,length:long)
Arguments
str- the string to take a substring from
start- starting position of the extracted string (first character is 0)
length- length of string to return
Description
Returns the substring of the given string at the given start position with the given length (or smaller if the length of the original string is less than start + length, or length is bigger than MAXSTRINGLEN).

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