SUBSTRING

SUBSTR is an alias for SUBSTRING. Learn more at SUBSTR documentation.

Overview

The SUBSTRING() function lets you extract a part of a string and return that substring.

Syntax

Here are the 2 basic syntaxes of the SUBSTRING() function in Oxla:

2 Arguments

SUBSTRING( string, start_position )

3 Arguments

SUBSTRING(string, start_position, length)

Both syntaxes will have input and return of type string.

Example

The following example uses the SUBSTRING() function to extract the first 7 characters from the string.

SELECT SUBSTRING('OxlaDocumentation', 1, 7);

It will display the substring from position 6 output as shown below:

substring 
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 OxlaDoc