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diff --git a/helpcontent2/source/text/sbasic/shared/03120303.xhp b/helpcontent2/source/text/sbasic/shared/03120303.xhp new file mode 100644 index 000000000..596b15faa --- /dev/null +++ b/helpcontent2/source/text/sbasic/shared/03120303.xhp @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<helpdocument version="1.0"> +<!-- + * This file is part of the LibreOffice project. + * + * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public + * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this + * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. + * + * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice: + * + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more + * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed + * with this work for additional information regarding copyright + * ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache + * License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file + * except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of + * the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 . +--> + +<meta> + <topic id="textsbasicshared03120303xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> + <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Left Function</title> + <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120303.xhp</filename> + </topic> +</meta> + +<body> + + +<section id="left"> +<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149346"> + <bookmark_value>Left function</bookmark_value> +</bookmark> + + +<h1 id="hd_id3149346"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120303.xhp" name="Left Function">Left Function</link></h1> +<paragraph id="par_id3147242" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Returns the number of leftmost characters that you specify of a string expression.</paragraph> +</section> + +<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#functsyntax"/> +<bascode> +<paragraph id="par_id3150771" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">Left (Text As String, n As Long)</paragraph> +</bascode> + +<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#functvalue"/> +<paragraph id="par_id3147530" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">String</paragraph> + +<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#functparameters"/> +<paragraph id="par_id3148552" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression that you want to return the leftmost characters from.</paragraph> +<paragraph id="par_id3149456" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>n:</emph> Numeric expression that specifies the number of characters that you want to return. If <emph>n</emph> = 0, a zero-length string is returned. The maximum allowed value is 2,147,483,648.</paragraph> +<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> +<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> +<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> + +<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#functexample"/> +<bascode> +<paragraph id="par_idm1340818096" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Sub ExampleUSDate</paragraph> +<paragraph id="par_idm1340816864" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim sInput As String</paragraph> +<paragraph id="par_idm1340815632" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim sUS_date As String</paragraph> +<paragraph id="par_id3150448" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> sInput = InputBox("Please input a date in the international format 'YYYY-MM-DD'")</paragraph> +<paragraph id="par_idm1340812576" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sUS_date = Mid(sInput, 6, 2)</paragraph> +<paragraph id="par_idm1340811328" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</paragraph> +<paragraph id="par_idm1340810064" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sUS_date = sUS_date & Right(sInput, 2)</paragraph> +<paragraph id="par_idm1340808800" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</paragraph> +<paragraph id="par_idm1340807536" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sUS_date = sUS_date & Left(sInput, 4)</paragraph> +<paragraph id="par_idm1340806272" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> MsgBox sUS_date</paragraph> +<paragraph id="par_idm1340805040" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">End Sub</paragraph> +</bascode> +<section id="relatedtopics"> + <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id161599082457466" localize="false"><embedvar href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#stringfunctions"/></paragraph> +</section> +</body> +</helpdocument> |