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layout: "functions"
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page_title: "slice - Functions - Configuration Language"
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sidebar_current: "docs-funcs-collection-slice"
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description: |-
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The slice function extracts some consecutive elements from within a list.
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# `slice` 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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`slice` extracts some consecutive elements from within a list.
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```hcl
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slice(list, startindex, endindex)
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```
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`startindex` is inclusive, while `endindex` is exclusive. This function returns
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an error if either index is outside the bounds of valid indices for the given
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list.
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## Examples
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```
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> slice(["a", "b", "c", "d"], 1, 3)
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[
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"b",
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"c",
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]
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```
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## Related Functions
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* [`substr`](./substr.html) performs a similar function for characters in a
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string, although it uses a length instead of an end index.
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