This guide provides step-by-step instructions with examples how to extract a substring in Excel using various text functions.

A software failure due to an invalid string of characters is common in any software system, but it is a critical one in an embedded software written in C language because it frequently manipulates ...

MySQL Substring to Find a Character & Return Left. MySQL includes a number of built-in string manipulation functions that are similar to the functions provided by Web scripting languages such as PHP.

I know many other languages use the eval() function to take a string argument and evaluate it as part of the source code (so you can run a function or assign a variable etc). I've seen it in PHP ...

Lines 24 and 25 use the wonderful strtok function to extract the fourth field from each line. strtok is a little different in that the first time you use it, you must supply the name of the character ...