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 beginning 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:

SUBSTR( <cString>, 1, <nLen> )

Examples

      ? LEFT( "HELLO HARBOUR", 5 )    // HELLO

Compliance

Clipper

Platforms

All

Files

Library is rtl

Seealso

SUBSTR(), RIGHT(), AT(), RAT()