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JavaScript substring () method

String Object Reference JavaScript String Object

Definition and Usage

substring () method is used to extract the string in two intermediary between the specified character index.

substring () method returns the substring includes characters at the beginning, but not including the character at the end.

grammar

string.substring(from, to)

参数 描述
from 必需。一个非负的整数,规定要提取的子串的第一个字符在 string Object 中的位置。
to 可选。一个非负的整数,比要提取的子串的最后一个字符在 string Object 中的位置多 1。
如果省略该参数,那么返回的子串会一直到字符串的结尾。


Browser Support

Internet ExplorerFirefoxOperaGoogle ChromeSafari

All major browsers support substring () method


Examples

Examples

In this example, we will use the substring () to extract some characters from a string ::

<script>

var str="Hello world!";
document.write(str.substring(3)+"<br>");
document.write(str.substring(3,7));

</script>

The above code output:

lo world!
lo w

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String Object Reference JavaScript String Object