fish-shell/doc_src/cmds/string-sub.rst
Johannes Altmanninger ad4530acd3 docs synopses: add space before ellipsis
This matches the style in man(1) (except that we use the … ligature).

A previous iteration did the reverse (never use a space before the
ellipsis). That would be a smaller change.
2022-01-16 14:05:47 +01:00

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string-sub - extract substrings
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Synopsis
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.. BEGIN SYNOPSIS
``string`` sub [(**-s** | **--start**) *START*] [(**-l** | **--length**) *LENGTH*]
\ [**-q** | **--quiet**] [*STRING* ...]
.. END SYNOPSIS
Description
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.. BEGIN DESCRIPTION
``string sub`` prints a substring of each string argument. The start/end of the substring can be specified with ``-s``/``-e`` or ``--start``/``--end`` followed by a 1-based index value. Positive index values are relative to the start of the string and negative index values are relative to the end of the string. The default start value is 1. The length of the substring can be specified with ``-l`` or ``--length``. If the length or end is not specified, the substring continues to the end of each STRING. Exit status: 0 if at least one substring operation was performed, 1 otherwise. ``--length`` is mutually exclusive with ``--end``.
.. END DESCRIPTION
Examples
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.. BEGIN EXAMPLES
::
>_ string sub --length 2 abcde
ab
>_ string sub -s 2 -l 2 abcde
bc
>_ string sub --start=-2 abcde
de
>_ string sub --end=3 abcde
abc
>_ string sub -e -1 abcde
abcd
>_ string sub -s 2 -e -1 abcde
bcd
>_ string sub -s -3 -e -2 abcde
c
.. END EXAMPLES