fn:substring-after
The substring after the first occurrence of a delimiter
Description
The fn:substring-after function extracts all the characters of a string ($arg1) that appear after the first occurrence of another specified string ($arg2).
This description is © Copyright 2007, Priscilla Walmsley. It is excerpted from the book XQuery by Priscilla Walmsley, O'Reilly, 2007. For a complete explanation of this function, please refer to Appendix A of the book.
Arguments and Return Type
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
$arg1 |
xs:string? |
the entire string |
$arg2 |
xs:string? |
the string to start the substring after |
$collation |
xs:string |
the collation to use to compare strings |
| return value | xs:string |
Examples
| XQuery Example | Results |
|---|---|
substring-after('query', 'u') |
ery |
substring-after('queryquery', 'ue') |
ryquery |
substring-after('query', 'y') |
zero-length string |
substring-after('query', 'x') |
zero-length string |
substring-after('query', '') |
query |
substring-after('', 'x') |
zero-length string |
See Also
| functx:substring-after-last | The substring after the last occurrence of a delimiter |
| functx:substring-after-last-match | The substring after the last text that matches a regex |
| functx:substring-after-if-contains | Performs substring-after, returning the entire string if it does not contain the delimiter |
| fn:substring | A substring based on a starting point and optional length |
| fn:substring-before | The substring before the first occurrence of a delimiter |
History
| Published On | Last Updated | Contributor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2006-06-27 | 2007-02-26 | W3C, XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators, http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/ |
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