substring-after

The substring-after function returns a string that is the rest of a given string after a given substring.

Syntax

substring-after( haystack, needle )

Arguments

haystack

The string to be evaluated. Part of this string will be returned.

needle

The substring to search for. Everything after the first occurrence of needle in haystack will be returned.

Returns

A string.

Examples

XPath Example Output
substring-after('aa-bb','-') bb
substring-after('aa-bb','a') a-bb
substring-after('aa-bb','b') b
substring-after('aa-bb','q') (empty string)

Defined

Gecko support

Supported.