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    This is a simple demonstration of the parsing a substring. The grammar is for a simplified phone number. The first example parses the entire string to match the phone number. The second example also matches the phone number, but only as a sub-string with a leading prefix phrase. The final example parses a substring which is completely embedded in the full input string.

    (function simple() {
      let input;
      const grammar = new (require('./phone-number'))();
      const setup = require('./setup');
      /* defaults the substring to the full string */
      input = '(800)555-1234';
      setup(input, undefined, undefined, grammar, 'substring-full');
      /* substring starts interior to string an runs to end of string */
      input = 'xxx(800)555-1234';
      setup(input, 3, undefined, grammar, 'substring-interior');
      /* selects an embedded substring */
      input = 'xxx(800)555-1234yyy';
      setup(input, 3, 13, grammar, 'substring-embedded');
    })();