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A subset of an alphanumeric field or variable. The substring function in a programming language is used to extract the subset; for example, the programming expression substr(prodcode,4,3) extracts characters 4, 5 and 6 out of a product code field or variable.



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This is natural-language processing software that builds up interpretations of larger and larger substrings of the input word list by always trying to combine the strongest substring interpretations found up to that point.
trademarks have been issued with the substring "nano" in them - dating back to 1965 - to a very wide variety of 640 companies.
In case the provider is unclear about the subject area of the document, she can seek help by entering a string in the "search string" slot and use either the synonym or substring push button.
 
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