LEFT()
Extract the leftmost substring of a character expression
- Syntax
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- LEFT( <cString>, <nLen> ) --> cReturn
- Arguments
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- <cString> Main character to be parsed
- <nLen> Number of bytes to return beggining at the leftmost position
- Returns
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- <cReturn> Substring of evaluation
- Description
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- 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
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- This functions is CA CLIPPER compatible
- Platforms
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- All
- Files
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- Library is rtl
- See Also