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title.substring(1)?

Can anyone explain this?

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Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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With just one argument, "substring" returns the part of the string that starts with the provided index value, and continues to the end. See the MDN page for more details.

So "title.substring(1)" would be a copy of "title" but without the very first character.