LEFT()
Extract the leftmost substring of a character expression
- Syntax
- LEFT(<cString>,<nPos>) --> <cReturn>
- Arguments
- <cString> Main character to be parsed
- <nPos> Number of bytes to return beggining at the leftmost position
- Returns
- <cReturn> Substring of evaluation
- Description
- This functions returns the leftmost characters of . It is equivalent to the following programing expression: SUBSTR(,1,
- Examples
- ? QOUT(LEFT('HELLO HARBOUR',5))
- Status
Ready
- Compliance
- This functions is CA CLIPPER compatible
- Platforms
- All
- Files
- Library is rtl
- See Also