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`substr` Function

-> Note: This page is about Terraform 0.12 and later. For Terraform 0.11 and earlier, see 0.11 Configuration Language: Interpolation Syntax.

substr extracts a substring from a given string by offset and length.

substr(string, offset, length)

Examples

> substr("hello world", 1, 4)
ello

The offset and length are both counted in unicode characters rather than bytes:

> substr("🤔🤷", 0, 1)
🤔