substring

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ string.

Noun

substring (plural substrings)

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

   The substrings of "button" include "butt", "ton", and "on".

Translations

string of characters

• Czech: podřetězec m
• Finnish: osajono, osamerkkijono
• Icelandic: hlutorð n

Verb

substring (third-person singular simple present substrings, present participle substringing, simple past and past participle substringed)

1. (computing, transitive) To extract a substring from.
   • 2015, Nadir K. Amra, Hernando Bedoya, Tony Cairns, Modernizing IBM i Applications from the Database up to the User Interface and Everything in Between:

     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.

2. (computing, transitive) To take as a substring.
   • 2010, Thomas Kyte, Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g:

     In this example, knowing that MY_SOUNDEX returns at most six characters, we are substringing the first six characters.

Anagrams

• burstings