Mark Wickens

LEFT$

Purpose

Returns a substring of a specified length from the left of a string.

Format

 LEFT$    ( string  , number of characters ] )
            └─┬──┘       └──────┬────────┘          
   String expression   Numeric expression  

Example

LEFT$("ABCDEF", 3)

Parameters

1. string: String expression
2. number of characters: Numeric expression truncated to an integer in the range of 0 ≦ number of characters < 256.

Explanation

1. Returns a substring of a specified length counting from the left of string.
2. The entire string is returned as the substring when the specified number of characters is greater than the number of characters in the string.

See

• MID$
• RIGHT$

Sample Program

10  A$="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
20  PRINT A$
30  INPUT "1 TO 26 HOW MANY GET"; N
40  PRINT LEFT$(A$, N)
50 END

Uses numeric input to display specified number of characters from beginning of alphabetic sequence.