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LEFT
Extracts the specified number of characters from the left end of a string
Syntax
LEFT(str, len)
Arguments
str
: any string or binary objectlen
: the number of characters to be extracted
Return Type
String
Examples
memsql> select left("1234567", 3);
+- -------------------+
| left("1234567", 3) |
+- -------------------+
| 123 |
+- -------------------+
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