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Left
Gives a specified number of characters from the left side of a string
Left(string, length)
The Left function syntax has these arguments:
| Part |
Description |
| string |
String
expression from which the leftmost characters are returned.
If string contains
Null, Null
is returned. |
| length |
Numeric
expression indicating how many characters to return. If 0, a
zero-length string is returned. If greater than or equal to the
number of characters in string, the entire string is
returned. |
To determine the number of characters in string, use the Len
function.
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| Note Another function (LeftB)
is provided for use with byte data contained in a string. Instead of
specifying the number of characters to return, length
specifies the number of bytes. |
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