SUBSTRING

Extracts a substring of a certain length starting from a specified point within the given string.

This is an alias for the SUBSTR function.

Syntax

SUBSTRING(STRING, START [, LENGTH])

Arguments

STRING

Type: string

The string to extract a substring from.

START

Type: integer

The starting index of the substring.

Positions start with 1. A negative starting position is interpreted as being relative to the end of the string.

LENGTH

Type: integer

(Optional) The length of the substring.

If omitted, the rest of the string after the starting position START is returned.

Returns

Type: string

Returns a substring from STRING of length LENGTH from the starting position START.

Examples

STRING	START	LENGTH	Output
Hello World	1	5	Hello
Hello World	0	4	''
Hello World	-5	5	World
Hello World	12	4	''
Hello World	-12	4	''
Hello World	2	3	ell
Hello World	3	-2	''
Hello World	2	14	ello World
Hello World	2		ello World
Hello World	-3	2	rl
null	-3	2	null

Transformation job example

SQL

CREATE JOB function_operator_example
    ADD_MISSING_COLUMNS = true	
    AS INSERT INTO default_glue_catalog.upsolver_samples.orders_transformed_data MAP_COLUMNS_BY_NAME
    SELECT 
        orderid,
        SUBSTRING(orderid, 1, 5) AS orderid_substring
    FROM default_glue_catalog.upsolver_samples.orders_raw_data 
    WHERE time_filter()
    LIMIT 3;

Query result

orderid	orderid_substring
yKib3twExs	yKib3
g7uXq8bySD	g7uXq
NQ2xWzj1EV	NQ2xW