substring — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.

   Examples

   The substrings of "button" include "butt", "ton", and "on".

Verb

1. To extract a substring from.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

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   If an existing character-based column is increased in size and your program does not need the extra characters, the view can be changed to force the smaller size by substringing the existing column.

2. To take as a substring.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   In this example, knowing that MY_SOUNDEX returns at most six characters, we are substringing the first six characters.

Noun

1. a string that is part of a longer string

   Broader terms

   string