Curt Arnold If the sum of the "offset" and "count" exceeds the "length" then the "substringData(offset,count)" method returns all the characters to the end of the data. Retrieve the character data from the second child of the first employee and access part of the data by using the substringData(offset,count) method with offset=9 and count=10. The method should return the substring "Martin" since offset+count > length (19 > 15). 2002-06-09