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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, O'Reilly Media. 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

XSLT 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

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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