1.substring method
Definition and usage
Thesubstring method is used to extract characters between two specified subscripts in a string.
Grammar
stringObject.substring(start,stop)
Parameter Description
start Required. A nonnegative integer that specifies the position in stringObject of the first character of the substring to be extracted.
stop Optional. A nonnegative integer that is one position in the stringObject that is one more than the last character of the substring to be extracted. If this parameter is omitted, the returned substring will go to the end of the string.
Return value
A new string value containing a substring of stringObject whose content is all characters from start to stop-1, and whose length is stop minus start.
Description
The substring returned by the substring method includes the characters at start, but does not include the characters at end.
If start and end are equal, then this method returns an empty string (that is, a string of length 0).
If start is greater than end, then this method will exchange these two parameters before extracting the substring.
If start or end is negative, then it will be replaced with 0.
2.substr method
Definition and usage
Thesubstr method is used to return a substring of the specified length starting from the specified position.
Grammar
stringObject.substr(start [, length ])
Parameter Description
start Required. The starting position of the desired substring. The first character in the string has index 0.
length Optional. The number of characters that should be included in the returned substring.
Description
If length is 0 or negative, an empty string will be returned.
If this parameter is not specified, the substring will be continued to the end of stringObject.
3. Example