• *grouping_word Function
• *grouping_word_inside Function
• a5_csweb_to_list Function
• a5_extractoddata Function
• a5_get_pos_linestart Function
• a5_modeless_textencoder Function
• expandtablefiletypes Function
• EXTRACT_STRING Function
• getstringfromfile Function
• LASTWORD Function
• LEADING Function
• LEFT Function
• left_u Function
• rat_u Function
• regex_literal_extract Function
• regex_literal_mask_get Function
• right_u Function
• SUBSTR Function
• substr_u Function
• TRAILING Function
• WORD2 Function
• WORD_IN_COMMON Function
• WORD_IN_COMMON_C Function
• WORD_UNIQUE Function
• WORD_UNIQUE_C Function

left_u Function

Syntax

Arguments

text

Character

Number_of_characters

Numeric

Description

Returns a portion of a string, starting with the leftmost character, honors UTF8 encoding.

See Also

• Character Extraction Functions