Name
substring — returns a substring of a string
Synopsis
| 
              substring
            ( | str string , | 
| from integer , | |
| sublen
   integer ); | 
Description
Returns a substring of string str. The start index is 1 based. The substring is sublen characters long.
This function follows SQL 92.
substring('AbracadabrA',1,4) -> 'Abra'
substring('AbracadabrA',5,4) -> 'cada'
substring('AbracadabrA',8,4) -> 'abrA'
      