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layout: "language"
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page_title: "substr - Functions - Configuration Language"
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sidebar_current: "docs-funcs-string-substr"
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description: |-
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The substr function extracts a substring from a given string by offset and
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length.
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---
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# `substr` Function
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-> **Note:** This page is about Terraform 0.12 and later. For Terraform 0.11 and
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earlier, see
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[0.11 Configuration Language: Interpolation Syntax](../../configuration-0-11/interpolation.html).
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`substr` extracts a substring from a given string by offset and length.
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```hcl
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substr(string, offset, length)
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```
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## Examples
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```
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> substr("hello world", 1, 4)
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ello
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```
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The offset and length are both counted in _unicode characters_ rather than
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bytes:
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```
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> substr("🤔🤷", 0, 1)
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🤔
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```
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