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  <refentry id="function.mb-substr">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>mb_substr</refname>
    <refpurpose>Get part of string</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
     <methodsynopsis>
      <type>string</type><methodname>mb_substr</methodname>
      <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>str</parameter></methodparam>
      <methodparam><type>int</type><parameter>start</parameter></methodparam>
      <methodparam choice="opt"><type>int</type><parameter>length</parameter></methodparam>
      <methodparam choice="opt"><type>string</type><parameter>encoding</parameter></methodparam>
     </methodsynopsis>
    <para>
     <function>mb_substr</function> returns the portion of
     <parameter>str</parameter> specified by the
     <parameter>start</parameter> and
     <parameter>length</parameter> parameters.
    </para>
    <para>
     <function>mb_substr</function> performs multi-byte safe
     <function>substr</function> operation based on
     number of characters. Position is
     counted from the beginning of
     <parameter>str</parameter>. First character's position is
     0. Second character position is 1, and so on. 
    </para>
    <para>
     If <parameter>encoding</parameter> is omitted, internal encoding
     is assumed.
    </para>
    <para>
     <parameter>encoding</parameter> is character encoding. If it is
     omitted, internal character encoding is used.
    </para>
    <para>
     See also <function>mb_strcut</function>, 
     <function>mb_internal_encoding</function>.
    </para>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

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