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Latest revision as of 05:34, 12 May 2020
The LEFT$ returns the specified number of characters from the left-hand side of the string.
In UTF-8 supporting versions 4.5.1 and higher NULL characters are no longer cut
out from strings, resulting in a different behavior:
Len of Chr$(0) is 1:
In former versions NULL characters could not appear in the middle of strings,
since theconcationation process cut these characters from the resulting string.
Syntax
LEFT$(<string>, <expression>)
Availability
All versions
Type
<return value>: String
<string>: String
<expression>: Long
Range
<return value>: String
<string>: String
<expression>: 0 to MaxLong
Scope
Configuration, Task or Terminal
Limitations
Read only
Examples
-->Test=”This string is too long”
-->PRINT LEFT$(Test,4)
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