WILLTEK 4403 - Left; MID; Right

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Functions
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LEFT$
MID$
RIGHT$
Examples
LEN("A short one") will return ‘11’.
Syntax
LEFT$(aString$, chars)
Parameters
aString$ is a string expression,
chars is a numeric expression, interpreted as positive
integer.
Description
Returns the first
chars characters of aString$, or the
whole string if
chars is greater than the amount of
characters contained in
aString$.
Should
chars have decimal places, then those will be
truncated (this means that there will be no rounding).
Examples
a$="Good morning"
b$=LEFT$(a$,4)
Will assign the string "Good" to b$.
Syntax
MID$(aString$, startPos, chars)
Parameters
aString$ is a string expression,
startPos and chars are numeric expressions, inter-
preted as positive integers.
Description
Returns
chars characters of aString$, starting at
position
startPos.
If
startPos+chars is greater than the total amount of
characters contained in
aString$, the entire string,
starting from
startPos will be returned.
If
chars is omitted, the entire string, starting from
startPos will be returned.
If
startPos is greater than the total amount of charac-
ters contained in
aString$ (i.e. startPos points past
the end of
aString$), then an empty string will be
returned.
Should
startPos or chars have decimal places, then
those will be truncated (this means that there will be no
rounding).
Examples
MID$("This is a test", 6, 4) will return the
string "is a".
Syntax
RIGHT$(aString$, chars)
Parameters
aString$ is a string expression,
chars is a numeric expression, interpreted as positive
integer.