How to get substring in SQLIte?

Question

I retrieve quite a lot of data from SQLite database. When retrieving I map it to different views in my application. There is a text field in my table from which I don\'t wan

Answer 1

To get the substring in SQLite

You can use the builtin function in SQLite which is substr(X,Y,Z). The x field represents the string input to be sliced, the y and z field represents the starting point and ending point respectively using an index.

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|Database Table : **articles**|
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|id | description             |
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|29 | Lorem ipsum domit       |
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Now we will try to make a select query for our description

SELECT substr(description,1,4) FROM articles where id='29';

Output would be: Lore instead of Lorem ipsum domit