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Service: documentdb · 2026-03-28 · Documentation low

File: documentdb/latest/developerguide/substrBytes.md

Summary

Entire documentation page for the $substrBytes operator has been removed, including all content, examples, and code snippets.

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The change removes documentation content entirely without any mention of security vulnerabilities, exploits, or security-related fixes. This appears to be a documentation restructuring or removal of a specific operator's documentation page, not a security-related update. No evidence of security issues, CVEs, or security patches mentioned in the removed content.

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-[Documentation](/index.html)[Amazon DocumentDB](/documentdb/index.html)[Developer Guide](what-is.html)
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-Example (MongoDB Shell)Code examples
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-# $substrBytes
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-The `$substrBytes` operator in Amazon DocumentDB is used to extract a substring from a string based on a specified byte range. This operator is useful when you need to extract a substring from a string and the number of bytes required to represent each character in the string is important.
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-Unlike `$substrCP`, which operates on the number of Unicode code points, `$substrBytes` operates on the number of bytes required to represent the characters in the string. This can be particularly useful when working with strings that contain non-ASCII characters, as these characters may require more than one byte to represent.
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-*Note:* `$substr` has been deprecated since version 3.4. `$substr` is now an alias for `$substrBytes`.
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-**Parameters**
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-  * `string`: The input string from which the substring will be extracted.
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-  * `startByte`: The zero-based starting byte position of the substring to be extracted. A negative value can be used to specify a position from the end of the string.
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-  * `length`: The number of bytes in the substring to be extracted.
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-## Example (MongoDB Shell)
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-In this example, we'll use `$substrBytes` to extract a substring from a string that contains non-ASCII characters.
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-**Create sample documents**
-    
-    
-    db.people.insertMany([
-      { "_id": 1, "Desk": "Düsseldorf-NRW-021" },
-      { "_id": 2, "Desk": "Bremerhaven-HBB-32a" },
-      { "_id": 3, "Desk": "Norderstedt-SHH-892.50" },
-      { "_id": 4, "Desk": "Brandenburg-BBB-78" }
-    ]);
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-**Query example**
-    
-    
-    db.people.aggregate([
-      {
-        $project: {
-          "state": { $substrBytes: [ "$Desk", 12, 3] }
-        }
-      }
-    ])
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-**Output**
-    
-    
-    { "_id": 1, "state": "NRW" },
-    { "_id": 2, "state": "HBB" },
-    { "_id": 3, "state": "SHH" },
-    { "_id": 4, "state": "BBB" }
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-In this example, we use `$substrBytes` to extract a 3-byte substring starting from the 12th byte of the `Desk` field. This allows us to extract the 2-character state abbreviation, even though the string may contain non-ASCII characters.
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-## Code examples
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-To view a code example for using the `$substrBytes` command, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:
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-Node.js
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-    
-    
-    const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');
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-    async function example() {
-      const client = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false');
-      const db = client.db('test');
-      const people = db.collection('people');
-    
-      const result = await people.aggregate([
-        {
-          $project: {
-            "state": { $substrBytes: ["$Desk", 12, 3] }
-          }
-        }
-      ]).toArray();
-    
-      console.log(result);
-      client.close();
-    }
-    
-    example();
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-Python
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-    
-    
-    from pymongo import MongoClient
-    
-    def example():
-        client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
-        db = client.test
-        people = db.people
-    
-        result = list(people.aggregate([
-            {
-                '$project': {
-                    "state": { '$substrBytes': ["$Desk", 12, 3] }
-                }
-            }
-        ]))
-    
-        print(result)
-        client.close()
-    
-    example()
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-[Document Conventions](/general/latest/gr/docconventions.html)
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-$substr
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-$substrCP
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