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LEFT

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Syntax

LEFT( string, number )

Description

Returns a string that contains the number of characters specified in number from the beginning of the string string.

Argument types:

string — String
number — Integer

Return type: String

Examples

LEFT("Computer", 4) = "Comp"

Data source support

Materialized Dataset, ClickHouse 1.1, Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (14.0), MySQL 5.6, Oracle Database 12c (12.1), PostgreSQL 9.3.