extract

Written by Balazs Halasy, 02/05/2004 Updated 04/17/2006 by Svitlana Shatokhina

Summary

Returns a portion of the input string.

Usage

input|extract( offset [, length] )

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
offset	integer	The offset to start at.	Yes.
length	integer	The number of characters that should be extracted.	No.

Returns

A string containing a portion of the input string.

Description

This operator will return a portion of the input string. The returned portion must be defined by the "offset" and "length" parameters. If the "length" parameter is omitted, the rest of the string (from offset) will be returned.

Examples

Example 1

{'I love monday mornings!'|extract( 7 )}

The following output will be produced: "monday mornings!".

Example 2

{'Big apples.'|extract( 4, 5 )}

The following output will be produced: "apple".

Contributors

Balazs Halasy Author 02/05/2004
Svitlana Shatokhina Updated 04/17/2006

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