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Left
left returns the leftmost characters from a string, including spaces.
You specify the number of characters to be returned.
Syntax
left(expression,limit)
Arguments
- expression
-
The expression must be a string. It can be the name of a field that uses the string data type, a literal value like
'12 Main Street', or a call to another function that outputs a string. - limit
-
The number of characters to be returned from expression, starting from the first character in the string.
Return type
String
Example
The following example returns the first 3 characters from a string.
left('Seattle Store #14', 3)
The following value is returned.
Sea
