substring

Speech parts

1. substring - Noun

2. substring - Verb

Meaning

substring (plural substrings)

(computing) A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.
The substrings of "button" include "butt", "ton", and "on".

(computing, transitive) To extract a substring from.

(computing, transitive) To take as a substring.

Examples

Line 2 gets a substring of that value from 0, which is the first character, to (but not including) 1, the second character. Source: Internet

Replaces the first substring of this string that matches the given with the given replacement. Source: Internet

The substring begins with the character at the specified index and extends to the end of this string. Source: Internet

When there is a positive-width match at the beginning of this string then an empty leading substring is included at the beginning of the resulting array. Source: Internet

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