substr Return part of a string &reftitle.description; stringsubstr stringstring intoffset intnulllength&null; Returns the portion of string specified by the offset and length parameters. &reftitle.parameters; string The input string. offset If offset is non-negative, the returned string will start at the offset'th position in string, counting from zero. For instance, in the string 'abcdef', the character at position 0 is 'a', the character at position 2 is 'c', and so forth. If offset is negative, the returned string will start at the offset'th character from the end of string. If string is less than offset characters long, an empty string will be returned. Using a negative <parameter>offset</parameter> ]]> length If length is given and is positive, the string returned will contain at most length characters beginning from offset (depending on the length of string). If length is given and is negative, then that many characters will be omitted from the end of string (after the start position has been calculated when a offset is negative). If offset denotes the position of this truncation or beyond, an empty string will be returned. If length is given and is 0, an empty string will be returned. If length is omitted or &null;, the substring starting from offset until the end of the string will be returned. Using a negative <parameter>length</parameter> ]]> &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns the extracted part of string, or an empty string. &reftitle.changelog; &Version; &Description; 8.0.0 length is nullable now. When length is explicitly set to &null;, the function returns a substring finishing at the end of the string, when it previously returned an empty string. 8.0.0 The function returns an empty string where it previously returned &false;. &reftitle.examples; Basic <function>substr</function> usage ]]> <function>substr</function> casting behaviour ]]> &example.outputs; Invalid Character Range If an invalid character range is requested, substr returns an empty string as of PHP 8.0.0; previously, &false; was returned instead. ]]> &example.outputs.8; ] &example.outputs.7; &reftitle.seealso; strrchr substr_replace preg_match trim mb_substr wordwrap String access and modification by character