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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  2. <html><head><title>Left Function [Runtime]</title><meta name="filename" content="text/sbasic/common/03120303"/><help:css-file-link xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><!--The CSS style header method for setting styles--><style type="text/css">
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  4.         p.P1{
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  6.         span.T1{
  7.                 font-weight:bold;}
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  11.   <help:paragraphinfo state="E" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:to-be-embedded Eid="left" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><a name="left"/>
  12.   <p class="Head1"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="1"/><help:key-word value="Left; function" tag="kw66381_1"/><help:link Id="66381">Left Function [Runtime]</help:link></p>
  13.   <p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="2"/>Returns the number of leftmost characters that you specify of a string expression.</p>
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  15.   <p class="Head2"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="3" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Syntax:</p>
  16.   <p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="4" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Left (Text As String, n As Integer)</p>
  17.   <p class="Head2"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="5" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Return value:</p>
  18.   <p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="6" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>String</p>
  19.   <p class="Head2"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="7" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Parameters:</p>
  20.   <p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="8" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><span class="T1">Text:</span> Any string expression that you want to return the leftmost characters from.</p>
  21.   <p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="9" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><span class="T1">n:</span> Integer expression that specifies the number of characters that you want to return. If <span class="T1">n</span> = 0, a zero-length string is returned.</p>
  22.   <p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="10" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>The following example converts a date in YYYY.MM.DD format to MM/DD/YYYY format.</p>
  23.   <p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="S" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:embedded Id="66475" Eid="errorcode" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/></p>
  24.   <p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="S" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:embedded Id="66475" Eid="err5" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/></p>
  25.   <p class="Head2"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="11" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Example:</p>
  26.   <p class="PropText"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="12" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Sub ExampleUSDate</p>
  27.   <p class="PropText"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="13" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Dim sInput As String</p>
  28.   <p class="PropText"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="14" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Dim sUS_date As String</p>
  29.   <p class="PropText"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="15" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>sInput = InputBox("Please input a date in the international format 'YYYY-MM-DD'")</p>
  30.   <p class="PropText"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="16" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>sUS_date = Mid(sInput, 6, 2)</p>
  31.   <p class="PropText"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="17" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</p>
  32.   <p class="PropText"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="18" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>sUS_date = sUS_date & <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>Right(sInput, 2)</p>
  33.   <p class="PropText"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="19" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</p>
  34.   <p class="PropText"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="20" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>sUS_date = sUS_date & Left(sInput, 4)</p>
  35.   <p class="PropText"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="21" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>MsgBox sUS_date</p>
  36.   <p class="PropText"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="22" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>End Sub</p>
  37.   <p class="PropText"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="23" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/></p>
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