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substring-after

Returns the characters in a string that occurs after a substring.

substring-after ( string, substring )

The following table describes the arguments for this function:

Argument	Description
string	String datatype. Passes the string to search.
substring	String datatype. Passes a substring to search for in the string.

String.

Empty string if the substring is not found.

NULL if a value passed to the function is NULL.

The following expression returns the string of characters in PHONE that occurs after the area code (415):

substring-after ( PHONE, (415) )

The following table includes examples of arguments and return values: