LeftA

Description

Temporarily converts a string from Unicode to DBCS based on the current locale, then returns the specified number of bytes from the string.

Syntax

LeftA (string, n)

Argument	Description
string	The string you want to search from left to right
n	A long specifying the number of bytes of the characters in the return string

Returns

String. Returns the characters for the leftmost n bytes in the source string if it succeeds and the empty string (“”) if an error occurs. If any argument’s value is null, LeftA returns null. If n is greater than or equal to the length of the string, LeftA returns the entire string. It does not add spaces to make the return value’s length equal to n.

Usage

LeftA replaces the functionality that Left had in DBCS environments in PowerBuilder 9.

In SBCS environments, Left, LeftW, and LeftA return the same results.