str.substring() - Pine Script Function

str.substring()

Overview

Returns a new string that is a substring of the source string. The substring begins with the character at the index specified by begin_pos and extends to ‘end_pos - 1’ of the source string.

Syntax

str.substring(source, begin_pos, end_pos) → const string

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
source	const string	Source string from which to extract the substring.

Returns

The substring extracted from the source string.

Remarks

• Strings indexing starts from 0. If begin_pos is equal to end_pos, the function returns an empty string.

Examples

Example 1

//@version=6
indicator("str.substring", overlay = true)
sym= input.symbol("NASDAQ:AAPL")pos = str.pos(sym, ":") // Get position of ":" charactertkr= str.substring(sym, pos+1) // "AAPL"
if barstate.islastconfirmedhistory
label.new(bar_index, high, text = tkr)

See Also

• str.contains
• str.pos
• str.match