How to use substring with laravel eloquent?

@cortez.connelly 

In Laravel, you can use the SUBSTRING function in your Eloquent queries by using the selectRaw method. Here's an example:

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$result = YourModel::selectRaw('SUBSTRING(column_name, start_position, length) as new_column')->get();

Replace YourModel with your actual model name and column_name, start_position and length with the appropriate values for your substring operation.

For example, if you have a User model and you want to select a substring of the name column starting from position 0 and with a length of 5 characters, you can do the following:

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$users = User::selectRaw('SUBSTRING(name, 0, 5) as short_name')->get();

This will return a collection of users with a short_name attribute that contains the substring of the name column.