LEFT

Given a number of characters, takes the leftmost number of characters in the string from the source column or custom string, and returns the specified number of leftmost characters in a new column.

Parameters

• sourceColumn – The name of an existing column.

• value – A character string to evaluate.

• position – The character position to begin with, from the left end of the string.

• targetColumn – The name of the new column to be created.

Note

You can specify either sourceColumn or value, but not both.

Examples

{
    "RecipeAction": {
        "Operation": "LEFT",
        "Parameters": {
            "position": "3",
            "sourceColumn": "city",
            "targetColumn": "city_left"
        }
    }
}

{
    "RecipeAction": {
        "Operation": "LEFT",
        "Parameters": {
            "position": "5",
            "value": "How now brown cow",
            "targetColumn": "how_now_5_left_chars"
        }
    }
}