CAS 6

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takeleft

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Summary

Take characters from begining of a field. Leading blanks will be omitted.

Examples

3 takeleft 'ABCDE'  
(-2) takeleft 'ABCDE' 
5 takeleft ZIPPLUS  

Syntax

NumChar takeleft TextField

Left Arguments

Name	Data Type	Input Type	Description	Optional	Default
NumChar	Numeric	Field, Constant	Numer of characters to take	No

Right Arguments

Name	Data Type	Input Type	Description	Optional	Default
TextField	Text	Field, Constant	Field or constant to take characters from.	No

Result

Type: Text

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