Availability
Flash Player 4. This function has been deprecated in favor of String.substr .

Usage

substring( "  string  " ,  index ,  count )

Parameters
string The string from which to extract the new string.

index The number of the first character to extract.

count The number of characters to include in the extracted string, not including the index character.

Returns
Nothing.

Description
String function; extracts part of a string. This function is 1-based, whereas the String object methods are 0-based.

See also
String.substr