debian man page for function::substr

function::substr

FUNCTION:(3stap)					  A collection of standard strin					  FUNCTION:(3stap)

NAME
       function::substr - Returns a substring

SYNOPSIS
	   substr:string(str:string,start:long,length:long)

ARGUMENTS
       str
	   the string to take a substring from

       start
	   starting position of the extracted string (first character is 0)

       length
	   length of string to return

DESCRIPTION
       Returns the substring of the given string at the given start position with the given length (or smaller if the length of the original
       string is less than start + length, or length is bigger than MAXSTRINGLEN).

SystemTap Tapset Reference					     May 2013							  FUNCTION:(3stap)