Left, Right, Mid string functions?

[ScottInTexas]

I don't understand the string object and how I can use it to get the last character of a string or the first three or the middle. I guess I am too used to VB functions and not up to snuff on my javascript.

Can someone clarify this for me?

[liorean]

You use one of the methods substring, substr or slice of the String type.

- slice takes two arguments, the starting position and the ending position.
- substr takes two arguments, the starting position and the length of the substring.

If you use a negative position, it will count from the end of the string

- substring behaves the same as slice, except that it doesn't allow its arguments to be negative and thus point from the end of the string.

All of these will terminate at the end of the string if the second argument is left out.

(You can also use the property length of the string to find out how long the string is and work based on that. Remember that JavaScript is zero based, in other words a string of the length 3 will have characters at the positions 0, 1 and 2.)


"string".slice(2,4) => "ri"
"string".substr(1,3) => "tri"
"string".substr(-1) => "g"
"string".slice(-5, -2) => "tri"

[Mr J]

- substring behaves the same as slice, except that it doesn't allow its arguments to be negative and thus point from the end of the string.

This works?

"string".substring(str.length,str.length-1) = "g"

"string".substring(str.length,str.length-3) = "ing"

"string".substring(str.length-2,str.length-5) = "tri"