This step allows you to cut a portion of a substring. If the designated field is out of range, it returns blank.

Options

This step has the following options:

Option	Definition
Step name	The name of this step as it appears in the transformation workspace.
In stream field	Name of the field whose substring to cut.
Out stream field	When a field name is given here, the step creates a new field with the substring. Otherwise the original field gets replaced by the substring.
Cut from	Designate where to begin cutting the substring. This value is 0-based, thus the first character in a string is 0.
Cut to	Designate where to end cutting the substring. This value is exclusive (1-based), so using a 1 includes the first character. The maximum length of the new string is Cut to minus Cut from.

Metadata injection support

As of Pentaho 8.3, all fields of this step support metadata injection. You can use this step with ETL metadata injection to pass metadata to your transformation at runtime.

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