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plural substrings
(computing) A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string. examples
third-person singular simple present substrings, present participle substringing, simple past and past participle substringed
(computing, transitive) To extract a substring from. quotations examples
If an existing character-based column is increased in size and your program does not need the extra characters, the view can be changed to force the smaller size by substringing the existing column.
2015, Nadir K. Amra, Hernando Bedoya, Tony Cairns, Modernizing IBM i Applications from the Database up to the User Interface and Everything in Between
(computing, transitive) To take as a substring. quotations examples
In this example, knowing that MY_SOUNDEX returns at most six characters, we are substringing the first six characters.
2010, Thomas Kyte, Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g