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<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>
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<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>
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