See substring on Wiktionary
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"sense": "string of characters",
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"word": "podřetězec"
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"sense": "string of characters",
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"To extract a substring from."
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"(computing, transitive) To extract a substring from."
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"To take as a substring."
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"(computing, transitive) To take as a substring."
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"word": "podřetězec"
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"word": "osajono"
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"word": "osamerkkijono"
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"To extract a substring from."
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"(computing, transitive) To extract a substring from."
],
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"text": "In this example, knowing that MY_SOUNDEX returns at most six characters, we are substringing the first six characters.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To take as a substring."
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"(computing, transitive) To take as a substring."
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