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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Left Function</title>
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<bookmark_value>Left function</bookmark_value>
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<h1 id="hd_id3149346"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120303.xhp">Left Function</link></h1>
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<paragraph id="par_id3147242" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Returns the number of leftmost characters that you specify of a string expression.</paragraph>
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<bascode>
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<paragraph id="par_id3150771" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">Left (string As String, length As Long) As String</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3148552" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>string</emph>: Any string expression that you want to return the leftmost characters from.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3149456" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>length</emph>: Numeric expression that specifies the number of characters that you want to return. If <emph>length</emph> = 0, a zero-length string is returned. The maximum allowed value is 2,147,483,648.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3150791" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">The following example converts a date in YYYY.MM.DD format to MM/DD/YYYY format.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1340816864" role="bascode" localize="false">Dim sInput As String</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1340815632" role="bascode" localize="false">Dim sUS_date As String</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3150448" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> sInput = InputBox("Please input a date in the international format 'YYYY-MM-DD'")</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1340812576" role="bascode" localize="false"> sUS_date = Mid(sInput, 6, 2)</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1340811328" role="bascode" localize="false"> sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1340810064" role="bascode" localize="false"> sUS_date = sUS_date & Right(sInput, 2)</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1340808800" role="bascode" localize="false"> sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1340807536" role="bascode" localize="false"> sUS_date = sUS_date & Left(sInput, 4)</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1340806272" role="bascode" localize="false"> MsgBox sUS_date</paragraph>
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