Mid

Extract a substring from a string

Method Signature

Mid(string=[string], start=[integer], count=[integer])

Arguments

Argument	Type	Required	Description	Default
string	string	true	The string to extract from
start	integer	true	The position of the first character to retrieve.
count	integer	false	The number of characters to retrieve.

Examples

Extract month from date

Grabs the month out of a raw date yyyymmdd value.

Run Example

mid( "20001122", "5", "2" );

Result: 11

Additional Examples

Run Example

str = "I Love Boxlang server";
writeOutput( mid( str, 8, 5 ) );
// Member function
str = "Hi buddy, Nice day!";
writeDump( str.mid( 4, 5 ) );

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