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SUBSTR

String functions

Syntax

SUBSTR( string, from_index [ , length ] )

Description

Returns the substring string starting from the index from_index.

If an additional argument length is specified, a substring of the specified length is returned.

Argument types:

string — String
from_index — Number (whole)
length — Number (whole)

Return type: String

Examples

SUBSTR("Computer", 3) = "mputer"

Data source support

Materialized Dataset, ClickHouse 1.1, Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (14.0), MySQL 5.6, PostgreSQL 9.3.