Class Mid

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    PostfixMathCommandI, java.io.Serializable

    public class Mid
    extends NaryFunction
    Extract substring of first argument: mid("abcdefg",2,3) -> "cde" Syntax: mid(str,start,len) Second argument is starting index, with the first character being at index 0. Third argument is number of characters to return. Note this differs from Excel's mid function which has 1 as the index of the first character.
    • If start is greater than the length of the string an EvaluationException is thrown.
    • If start is less than zero an EvaluationException is thrown.
    • If len is less than zero an EvaluationException is thrown.
    • If start+len is greater than the length of the string return all characters from start.
    • If str is not a string an EvaluationException is thrown.
    • If start is not a number representing an integer an EvaluationException is thrown.
    • If end is not a number representing an integer an EvaluationException is thrown.
    See Also:
    String.substring(int, int), Serialized Form
    • Constructor Detail

      • Mid

        public Mid()
    • Method Detail

      • eval

        public java.lang.Object eval​(java.lang.Object[] args)
                              throws EvaluationException
        Description copied from class: NaryFunction
        Evaluate the function
        Specified by:
        eval in class NaryFunction
        Parameters:
        args - arguments to the function
        Returns:
        value returned by the function
        Throws:
        EvaluationException - if the calculation cannot be performed