substring index range

Both are 0-based, but the start is inclusive and the end is exclusive. This ensures the resulting string is of length start - end.

To make life easier for substring operation, imagine that characters are between indexes.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  <- available indexes for substring 
 u n i v E R S i t y
        ↑     ↑
      start  end --> range of "E R S"

Quoting the docs:

The substring begins at the specified beginIndex and extends to the character at index endIndex - 1. Thus the length of the substring is endIndex-beginIndex.

0: U

1: n

2: i

3: v

4: e

5: r

6: s

7: i

8: t

9: y

Start index is inclusive

End index is exclusive

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