substring

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

Noun

  1. A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.
    • The substrings of "button" include "butt", "ton", and "on".

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English string English substring From sub- + string.

Forms

substrings

Verb

  1. To extract a substring from.
    • 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. - 2015, Nadir K....
  2. To take as a substring.
    • In this example, knowing that MY_SOUNDEX returns at most six characters, we are substringing the first six characters. - 2010, Thomas Kyte, Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g:

Forms

substrings substringing substringed