# substring()

## Purpose

substring(str, start, subStringLength)

Creates a substring from str. The substring begins at start and is at most subStringLength characters long.

Note

The first character of the string has the value 0. So if you set start to ‘2’, the substring will start with the third character.

## Example

In the following example a substring from the string is created, starting with the 4th character and being 5 characters long.

    substring("123456789", 3, 5)

This example will result in the substring “45678”.

See also

Help with configuring/using `Rsyslog`:

- Mailing list - best route for general questions

- GitHub: rsyslog source project - detailed questions, reporting issues that are believed to be bugs with `Rsyslog`

- Stack Exchange (View, Ask) - experimental support from rsyslog community

See also

Contributing to `Rsyslog`:

- Source project: rsyslog project README.

- Documentation: rsyslog-doc project README

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