Etymology

From sub- +‎ stringCategory:English terms prefixed with sub-#STRING.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#SUBSTRING

Noun

substring (plural substrings)Category:English lemmas#SUBSTRINGCategory:English nouns#SUBSTRINGCategory:English countable nouns#SUBSTRINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SUBSTRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SUBSTRINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SUBSTRING

1. (computingCategory:en:Computing#SUBSTRING) A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.

   The substrings of "button" include "butt", "ton", and "on".Category:English terms with usage examples#SUBSTRING

Verb

substring (third-person singular simple present substrings, present participle substringing, simple past and past participle substringed)Category:English lemmas#SUBSTRINGCategory:English verbs#SUBSTRINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SUBSTRINGCategory:Pages with entries#SUBSTRINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SUBSTRING

1. (computingCategory:en:Computing#SUBSTRING, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SUBSTRING) To extract a substring from.
   • 2015, Nadir K. Amra, Hernando Bedoya, Tony Cairns, Modernizing IBM i Applications from the Database up to the User Interface and Everything in Between:

     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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#SUBSTRING

     Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
2. (computingCategory:en:Computing#SUBSTRING, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SUBSTRING) To take as a substring.
   • 2010, Thomas Kyte, Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g:

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

     Category:English terms with quotations#SUBSTRING

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