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September 27, 2001 Extracting the Remainder of a String  Tips: September 2001
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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The substring() method accepts two parameters, start and end, and extracts the substring beginning at position start up to and not including the character at position end. The first character of a string is at position 0. Here is the syntax:
"Doc JavaScript":
start and end can be switched, as JavaScript takes the smaller value to begin the substring and the higher one to end it. Also, the second parameter may be omitted. In this case, the substring will end when the string itself is exhausted. For example, the following code should return "biweekly columns and daily tips":
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