LeftA – PB Docs 2017

Description

Obtains a specified number of bytes from the beginning of a
string.

Syntax

Return value

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.

Usage

LeftA replaces the functionality that Left had in DBCS environments
in PowerBuilder 9. In SBCS environments, Left and LeftA return the same
results.

See also

MidA

PosA

RightA

LeftA in PowerScript Reference