Substring
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Substring is a noun meaning (computing) A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.
Meaning
(computing) A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.
More Meanings
- (computing, transitive) To extract a substring from.
- (computing, transitive) To take as a substring.
Example Sentences
The substrings of "button" include "butt", "ton", and "on".
In this example, knowing that MY_SOUNDEX returns at most six characters, we are substringing the first six characters.
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.
Word Forms
- substrings
- substringing
- substringed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include superstring, string, border, suffix, varchar, charstring.
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