Question

the most darndest thing! the following code prints out ‘llo’ instead of the expected ‘wo’. i get such surprising results for a few other numbers. what am i missing here?

alert('helloworld'.substring(5, 2));

Answer 1

You’re confusing substring() and substr(): substring() expects two indices and not offset and length. In your case, the indices are 5 and 2, ie characters 2..4 will be returned as the higher index is excluded.