LEFT()

Extract the leftmost substring of a character expression

Syntax

LEFT( <cString>, <nLen> ) --> cReturn

Arguments

<cString> Main character to be parsed

<nLen> Number of bytes to return beggining at the leftmost position

Returns

<cReturn> Substring of evaluation

Description

This functions returns the leftmost <nLen> characters of <cString>. It is equivalent to the following expression: <fixed> SUBSTR( <cString>, 1, <nLen> ) </fixed>
Examples
      ? LEFT( 'HELLO HARBOUR', 5 )    // HELLO
Status

Ready

Compliance

This functions is CA CLIPPER compatible

Platforms

All

Files

Library is rtl

See Also