The substrings of "button" include "butt", "ton", and "on".
Source: wiktionary
Substring
Synonyms for "substring"
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Translations
6 translations across 4 languages.
Czech
1 entries- podřetězec noun (string of characters)
Finnish
2 entries- osajono noun (string of characters)
- osamerkkijono noun (string of characters)
German
2 entries- Teilstring noun (string of characters)
- Teilzeichenkette noun (string of characters)
Icelandic
1 entries- hlutorð noun (string of characters)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
In this example, knowing that MY_SOUNDEX returns at most six characters, we are substringing the first six characters.
Source: wiktionary
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