MID ( string , start-pos , number-chars )

Description: Extracts number-chars characters from string, starting at character position start-pos. (MID is intended for use with languages that use the single-byte character set (SBCS), whereas MIDB (§3.17.7.209) is intended for use with languages that use the double-byte character set (DBCS).)

Arguments:

Name	Type	Description
string	text	Designate the string from which a substring is to be extracted.
number-chars	number	The number of characters to be extracted. number-chars shall be at least 0.
start-pos	number	The starting position within string, where the first character is position 1. If start-pos is greater than the length of string, or if start-pos and number-chars combined exceeds the length of string, the whole of string shall be extracted.

Return Type and Value: text – A string containing number-chars characters from string, starting at character position start-pos.

However, if

• start-pos < 0, #VALUE! is returned.

• number-chars < 0, #VALUE! is returned.

[Example:

MID("abcdef",3,2) results in cd
MID(A10,4,1) results in 1, when A10 contains xyz123
MID("abcdef",4,5) results in def

end example]