substring

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Noun

substring (plural substrings)

1. (computing) A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.

   The substrings of "button" include "butt", "ton", and "on".

Verb

substring (substrings, present participle substringing; past and past participle substringed)

1. (computing, transitive) 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.

2. (computing, transitive) To take as a substring.

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