Left()

Purpose

To extract a substring beginning with the first character in a string

Syntax

Left( <cString> , <nCharacters> ) cSubString

Arguments

<cString> is a character string from which to extract characters.

<nCharacters> is number of characters to extract beginning with the leftmost character.

Returns

Left() returns a substring of <nCharacters> from <cString> starting at the leftmost character.