What is the difference between substr and substring?

Question

What is the difference between

alert("abc".substr(0,2));

and

alert("abc".substring(0,2));

They both seem to output “ab”.

Answer 1

The difference is in the second argument. The second argument to substring is the index to stop at (but not include), but the second argument to substr is the maximum length to return.

Links?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/substr

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/substring

Answer 2

The first takes parameters as (from, length).
The second takes parameters as (from, to).

alert("abc".substr(1,2)); // returns "bc"
alert("abc".substring(1,2)); // returns "b"

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Resources :

• w3school - substr()
• w3school - substring()