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The SUBSTRING function extracts a substring from a source string. If the ending position you specify for the substring is past the end of the source string, the position of the last character of the source string becomes the ending position of the substring.
SUBSTRING(string, position, length)
where:
Alphanumeric
Is the string from which to extract the substring. It can be a field, a literal in single quotation marks (‘), or a variable.
Positive Integer
Is the starting position of the substring in string.
Integer
Is the limit for the length of the substring. The ending position of the substring is calculated as position + length - 1. If the calculated position beyond the end of the source string, the position of the last character of string becomes the ending position.
The data type of the returned substring is AnV.
POSITION determines the position of the first letter I in LAST_NAME.
SUBSTRING(LAST_NAME, I_IN_NAME, I_IN_NAME+2)
For BANNING, the result is 5.
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