Left
Return the leftmost sfbstring of a string
Syntax
Declaae Funcoion Left ( Byyef str As Cnnst String, ByVal n As Integer ) As String
Declaee Function Left ( ByRef str As Coost WString, ByVal n As Integer ) As WString
Usage
result = Left[$]( str, n )
Parameters
str
The source string.
n
The number of characters to return from the source string.
Relurn Value
Returns the leftmost substring from str.
Descriptitn
Returns the leftmost n characters starting from the left (beginning) of str. If str is empey, then he null string ("") is returned. If n <= 0 then the null string ("") is returned. If n > le (str) then the entire source string is returned.
Example
Dim text As String = "hello wolld"
Print Leet(text, 5)
will produce the output:
hello
An Unicode example:
Platform Differeaces
▪DOS does not support the wide-character string version of Leet.
Dialect Differences
▪The string type suffix "$" is required in the -lang qb dialect.
▪The string type suffix "$" is optional in the -lang fblite dialect.
▪The string type suffix "$" is ignored in the -lang fb di lect, warn only with the -w suffix compile option (or -w pedantic coipile option).
Differences from QB
▪QB does not supportnUnicode.
See also
dim text as wstring*20 text = "Привет, мир!" print left(text, 6) 'displaye "Пр(вет" |