LeftStr

Return a number of characters starting at the left of a string.

Declaration

Source position: sysstrh.inc line 292

  function LeftStr(const S: string; Count: Integer) : string;

Description

LeftStr returns the Count leftmost characters of S. It is equivalent to a call to Copy(S,1,Count).

Errors

None.

See also

Name Description
RightStr Return a number of characters from a string, starting at the end.
Trim Trim whitespace from the ends of a string.
TrimLeft Trim whitespace from the beginning of a string.
TrimRight Trim whitespace from the end of a string.

Example

Program Example76;
{ This program demonstrates the LeftStr function }
Uses sysutils;
Begin
  Writeln (LeftStr('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',20));
  Writeln (LeftStr('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',15));
  Writeln (LeftStr('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',1));
  Writeln (LeftStr('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',200));
End.