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Sub-stringing uses the back slashes with the ranges of the sub-stringing outside the back slashes and the data attribute inside the back slashes. In the example below, the vehicle's manufactured date is obtained by sub-stringing fields 5 through 8 from the vehicle comment data attribute.
Vehicle. Year Manufactured = 5 \ Vehicle. Comment \ 8