Left
Returns the leftmost substring of a string
Declare Function Left Overload ( ByRef str As Const String, ByVal n As Integer ) As String
Declare Function Left ( ByRef str As Const WString, ByVal n As Integer ) As WString
result = Left[$]( str, n )
str
Returns the leftmost substring from str.
Returns the leftmost n characters starting from the left (beginning) of str. If str is empty, then the null string ("") is returned. If n <= 0 then the null string ("") is returned. If n > len(str) then the entire source string is returned.
will produce the output:
Syntax
Declare Function Left Overload ( ByRef str As Const String, ByVal n As Integer ) As String
Declare Function Left ( ByRef str As Const WString, ByVal n As Integer ) As WString
Usage
result = Left[$]( str, n )
Parameters
str
The source string.
nThe number of characters to return from the source string.
Return Value
Returns the leftmost substring from str.
Description
Returns the leftmost n characters starting from the left (beginning) of str. If str is empty, then the null string ("") is returned. If n <= 0 then the null string ("") is returned. If n > len(str) then the entire source string is returned.
Example
Dim text As String = "hello world"
Print Left(text, 5)
Print Left(text, 5)
will produce the output:
helloAn Unicode example:
| dim text as wstring*20 text = "Привет, мир!" print left(text, 6) 'displays "Привет" |
