1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textsbasicshared03120303xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Left Function [Runtime]</title> 28<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120303.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<section id="left"> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149346"> 34<bookmark_value>Left function</bookmark_value> 35</bookmark> 36<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149346" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120303.xhp" name="Left Function [Runtime]">Left Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 37<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147242" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the number of leftmost characters that you specify of a string expression.</paragraph> 38</section> 39<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156153" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 40<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150771" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="4">Left (Text As String, n As Long)</paragraph> 41<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153824" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 42<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147530" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">String</paragraph> 43<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148946" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148552" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 45<emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression that you want to return the leftmost characters from.</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149456" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="9"> 47<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 65535.</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150791" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">The following example converts a date in YYYY.MM.DD format to MM/DD/YYYY format.</paragraph> 49<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 50<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3125863" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="11">Example:</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3144761" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Sub ExampleUSDate</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153194" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Dim sInput As String</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154217" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Dim sUS_date As String</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150448" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">sInput = InputBox("Please input a date in the international format 'YYYY-MM-DD'")</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149203" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">sUS_date = Mid(sInput, 6, 2)</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150439" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153770" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">sUS_date = sUS_date & Right(sInput, 2)</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161833" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147215" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">sUS_date = sUS_date & Left(sInput, 4)</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149666" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">MsgBox sUS_date</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153138" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">End Sub</paragraph> 63</body> 64</helpdocument> 65