LEFT

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.