Returns a substring of a string.
{ SUBSTRING | SUBSTR } ( string-expression, start
[, length ] )string-expression The string from which a substring is to be returned.
start The start position of the substring to return, in characters.
length The length of the substring to return, in characters. If length is specified, the substring is restricted to that length.
LONG BINARY
LONG VARCHAR
LONG NVARCHAR
In UltraLite, the database does not have an ansi_substring option, but the SUBSTR function behaves as if ansi_substring is set to on by default. The function's behavior corresponds to ANSI/ISO SQL/2003 behavior:
Start value The first character in the string is at position 1. A negative or zero start offset is treated as if the string were padded on the left with non-characters.
Length value A positive length specifies that the substring ends length characters to the right of the starting position.
A negative length returns an error.
A length of zero returns an empty string.
If string-expression is of binary data type, the SUBSTRING function behaves as BYTE_SUBSTR.
To obtain characters at the end of a string, use the RIGHT function.
Whenever possible, if the input string uses character length semantics the return value is described in terms of character length semantics.
SQL/2003 Core feature.
The following table shows the values returned by the SUBSTRING function.
| Example | Result |
|---|---|
| SUBSTRING( 'front yard', 1, 4 ) | fron |
| SUBSTRING( 'back yard', 6, 4 ) | yard |
| SUBSTR( 'abcdefgh', 0, -2 ) | Returns an error |
| SUBSTR( 'abcdefgh', -2, 2 ) | Returns an empty string |
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