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+ <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>
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+<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>
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+<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"/>
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+<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 &amp; "/"</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1340810064" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sUS_date = sUS_date &amp; Right(sInput, 2)</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1340808800" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sUS_date = sUS_date &amp; "/"</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1340807536" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sUS_date = sUS_date &amp; 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>
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+</body>
+</helpdocument>