string-sub - extract substrings¶

Synopsis¶

string sub [(-s | --start) START] [(-e | --end) END] [(-l | --length) LENGTH]
           [-q | --quiet] [STRING ...]

Description¶

string sub prints a substring of each string argument. The start/end of the substring can be specified with -s/-e or --start/--end followed by a 1-based index value. Positive index values are relative to the start of the string and negative index values are relative to the end of the string. The default start value is 1. The length of the substring can be specified with -l or --length. If the length or end is not specified, the substring continues to the end of each STRING. Exit status: 0 if at least one substring operation was performed, 1 otherwise. --length is mutually exclusive with --end.

Examples¶

>_ string sub --length 2 abcde
ab

>_ string sub -s 2 -l 2 abcde
bc

>_ string sub --start=-2 abcde
de

>_ string sub --end=3 abcde
abc

>_ string sub -e -1 abcde
abcd

>_ string sub -s 2 -e -1 abcde
bcd

>_ string sub -s -3 -e -2 abcde
c