A Visual FoxPro built-in function which returns a specified number of characters from a character expression, starting with the leftmost character.
Syntax
Left(cExpression, nCharacters)
Argument
cExpression
Specifies the character expression from which Left( ) returns characters.
nCharacters
Specifies the number of characters returned from the character expression. If nCharacters is greater than the length of cExpression, all of the character expression is returned. The empty string is returned if nCharacters is negative or 0.
Returns
Character
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