.. _substring-after:

===============
substring-after
=============== 

The substring after the first occurrence of a delimiter

Description
~~~~~~~~~~~
The fn:substring-after function extracts all the characters of a string ($arg1) 
that appear after the first occurrence of another specified string ($arg2).

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   * - **Parameters**
     - **Description**
   * - arg1:string()
     - the entire string
   * - arg2:string()
     - the string to start the substring after
   * - collation:string()
     - the collation to use to compare strings

Examples
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   * - **XPath**
     - **Results**
   * - substring-after('query', 'u')
     - ery
   * - substring-after('queryquery', 'ue')
     - ryquery
   * - substring-after('query', 'y')
     - zero-length string
   * - substring-after('query', 'x')
     - zero-length string
   * - substring-after('query', '')
     - query
   * - substring-after('', 'x')
     - zero-length string

See Also
~~~~~~~~

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* :ref:`functx_substring-after-last`.
* :ref:`functx_substring-after-last-match`.
* :ref:`functx_substring-after-if-contains`.
* :ref:`substring`.
* :ref:`substring-before`.