Futurebasic/Language/Reference/leftstring

Revised
May 30, 2000 (Release 3)

Description
This function returns a substring or subcontainer consisting of the leftmost characters of   or. If  is greater than the length of   or , then   returns the entire string or container. If  is zero, then   returns an empty (zero-length) string.

Note: You may not use complex expressions that include containers on the right side of the equal sign. Instead of using:

Use: