Socrata was acquired by Tyler Technologies in 2018 and is now the Data and Insights division of Tyler. The platform is still powered by the same software formerly known as Socrata but you will see references to Data & Insights going forward.

slice

Function: slice
  Get a substring of a specified length of a text from a start index

Examples:

  slice('foobar', 0, 2)
  -- Result: "fo"

  slice('foobar', -3, 3)
  -- Result: "bar"

  slice('foobar', -10, 1300)
  -- Result: ""

  slice('foobar', 0, -2)
  -- Result: {"type":"invalid_length","english":"Invalid length -2. Slice length must be a nonnegative integer.","data":{"length":-2}}




Signatures
text, number, number -> text