Extract substring

World's simplest browser-based utility for extracting substrings from text. Input your text and specify start and end positions to extract the desired portion. Perfect for data processing, text analysis, or extracting specific content from larger text blocks.

Input text

Extracted text

Tool options

Extraction options

Start position (1-based index)

Number of characters to extract

Process multi-line text

Extract from each line independently

Reverse output

Reverse the extracted substring

Extract substring Examples

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Extract First 5 Characters

This example extracts the first 5 characters from the text.

Extraction options

Start position (1-based index)

Number of characters to extract

Process multi-line text

Extract from each line independently

Reverse output

Reverse the extracted substring

Extract Words from the Middle

Extract a substring starting from position 11 with a length of 10 characters.

Extraction options

Start position (1-based index)

Number of characters to extract

Process multi-line text

Extract from each line independently

Reverse output

Reverse the extracted substring

Multi-line Extraction with Reversal

Extract characters 1-3 from each line and reverse them.

Extraction options

Start position (1-based index)

Number of characters to extract

Process multi-line text

Extract from each line independently

Reverse output

Reverse the extracted substring

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