ak.str.slice ------------ .. py:module: ak.str.slice Defined in `awkward.operations.str.akstr_slice `__ on `line 13 `__. .. py:function:: ak.str.slice(array, start, stop=None, step=1, *, highlevel=True, behavior=None, attrs=None) :param array: Array-like data (anything :py:obj:`ak.to_layout` recognizes). :param start: Index to start slicing at (inclusive). :type start: int :param stop: Index to stop slicing at (exclusive). If not given, slicing will stop at the end. :type stop: None or int :param step: Slice step. :type step: int :param highlevel: If True, return an :py:obj:`ak.Array`; otherwise, return a low-level :py:obj:`ak.contents.Content` subclass. :type highlevel: bool :param behavior: Custom :py:obj:`ak.behavior` for the output array, if high-level. :type behavior: None or dict :param attrs: Custom attributes for the output array, if high-level. :type attrs: None or dict Replaces any string or bytestring-valued data with a slice between ``start`` and ``stop`` indexes; ``start`` is inclusive and ``stop`` is exclusive and both are 0-indexed. For strings, ``start`` and ``stop`` are measured in Unicode characters; for bytestrings, ``start`` and ``stop`` are measured in bytes. The ``start``, ``stop``, and ``replacement`` are scalars; they cannot be different for each string/bytestring in the sample. Note: this function does not raise an error if the ``array`` does not contain any string or bytestring data. Requires the pyarrow library and calls `pyarrow.compute.utf8_slice_codeunits `__ or performs a literal slice on strings and bytestrings, respectively.