Microsoft SQL Server String Functions Substring
Example
Returns a substring that starts with the char that's in the specified start index and the specified max length.
Parameters:
- Character expression. The character expression can be of any data type that can be implicitly converted to
varcharornvarchar, except fortextorntext. - Start index. A number (
intorbigint) that specifies the start index of the requested substring. (Note: strings in sql server are base 1 index, meaning that the first character of the string is index 1). This number can be less then 1. In this case, If the sum of start index and max length is greater then 0, the return string would be a string starting from the first char of the character expression and with the length of (start index + max length - 1). If it's less then 0, an empty string would be returned. - Max length. An integer number between 0 and
bigintmax value (9,223,372,036,854,775,807). If the max length parameter is negative, an error will be raised.
SELECT SUBSTRING('This is my string', 6, 5) -- returns 'is my'
If the max length + start index is more then the number of characters in the string, the entier string is returned.
SELECT SUBSTRING('Hello World',1,100) -- returns 'Hello World'
If the start index is bigger then the number of characters in the string, an empty string is returned.
SELECT SUBSTRING('Hello World',15,10) -- returns ''
