fish-shell/sphinx_doc_src/cmds/string-sub.rst
Johannes Altmanninger 08eac28bd8 Add individual documentation pages for string's subcommands
This adds string-x.rst for each subcommand x of string. The main page
(string.rst) is not changed, except that examples are shown directly after
each subcommand.  The subcommand sections in string.rst are created by
textual inclusion of parts of the string-x.rst files.

Subcommand man pages can be viewed with either of:

```
man string collect
man string-collect
string collect <press F1 or Alt-h>
string collect -h
```

While `string -h ...` still prints the full help.

Closes #5968
2019-11-07 09:54:25 +01:00

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string-sub - extract substrings
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Synopsis
--------
.. BEGIN SYNOPSIS
::
string sub [(-s | --start) START] [(-l | --length) LENGTH] [(-q | --quiet)] [STRING...]
.. END SYNOPSIS
Description
-----------
.. BEGIN DESCRIPTION
``string sub`` prints a substring of each string argument. The start of the substring can be specified with ``-s`` or ``--start`` followed by a 1-based index value. Positive index values are relative to the start of the string and negative index values are relative to the end of the string. The default start value is 1. The length of the substring can be specified with ``-l`` or ``--length``. If the length is not specified, the substring continues to the end of each STRING. Exit status: 0 if at least one substring operation was performed, 1 otherwise.
.. END DESCRIPTION
Examples
--------
.. BEGIN EXAMPLES
::
>_ string sub --length 2 abcde
ab
>_ string sub -s 2 -l 2 abcde
bc
>_ string sub --start=-2 abcde
de
.. END EXAMPLES