# Take part of string

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/take-part-of-string/28689>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [September 12, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/take-part-of-string/28689 "2019-09-12T13:24:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![romeritomorais](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@romeritomorais](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/romeritomorais)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/take-part-of-string/28689/1 "2019-09-12T13:24:15Z")

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how do I get part of a string from a field in the dataframe

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**Author:** ![Rudi79](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rudi79/32/3884_2.png) [@Rudi79](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Rudi79)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/take-part-of-string/28689/2 "2019-09-12T15:01:54Z")

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I don’t know what you are looking for exactly, but maybe this might be helpful:

```julia
using DataFrames, VegaDatasets
tmp = DataFrame(dataset("stocks"))
tmp[!, :smaller_string] .= SubString.(tmp.symbol,1,2)

```

note that symbol is the name of the column in the dataframe.  
The VegaDatasets is loaded because I am too lazy to come up with a dataframe on my own.

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**Author:** ![romeritomorais](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@romeritomorais](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/romeritomorais)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 4:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/take-part-of-string/28689/3 "2019-09-13T04:51:28Z")

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helped me a lot … thanks