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Chapter —Program Instructions
LEFT$
Purpose Function returning a specified number of characters from a given string
starting from the extreme left side of the string, that is from the start.
Syntax LEFT$(,)
is the string from which the characters will be returned.
is the number of characters to be returned.
Remarks This function is the complementary function for RIGHT$, which returns
the characters starting from the extreme right side, that is from the end.
If the number of characters to be returned is greater than the number
of characters in the string, then the entire string will be returned. If the
number of characters is set to zero, a null string will be returned.
Examples 10 PRINT LEFT$("THERMAL PRINTER",7)
RUN
THERMAL
10 A$="THERMAL PRINTER":B$="LABEL"
20 PRINT LEFT$(A$,8);LEFT$(B$,10);"S"
RUN
THERMAL LABELS
yields:
yields:
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