Obtains a specified number of bytes from the beginning of a string.
LeftA ( string, n )
Argument |
Description |
|---|---|
string |
The string containing the characters you want |
n |
A long specifying the number of bytes you want |
String. Returns the characters in the leftmost n bytes in string if it succeeds and the empty string (“”) if an error occurs.
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.
LeftA replaces the functionality that Left had in DBCS environments in InfoMaker 9. In SBCS environments, Left and LeftA return the same results.
