substr
Extract substring from string
Description
newStr = substr(str,pos,length)str that starts at the character
position pos and is length characters
long. Use zero-based indexing.
Note
The operator substr is supported only in Stateflow® charts that use C as the action language. In charts that use
MATLAB® as the action language, use extractAfter
or extractBefore.
Examples
Extract substring "world" from a longer string.
str = "Hello, world!";
newStr = substr(str,7,5);
Tips
Use zero-based indexing.
Enclose literal strings with single or double quotes.
Version History
Introduced in R2018b
