cut out part of a string

Question

Say, I have a string

\"hello is it me you\'re looking for\"

I want to cut part of this string out and return the new string, something like

Answer 1

You need to do something like the following:

var s = "I am a string";

var sSubstring = s.substring(2); // sSubstring now equals "am a string".

You have two options about how to go about it:

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/strings.html#substring

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/strings.html#substr