Applies to: CELONIS 4.0 CELONIS 4.2 CELONIS 4.3 CELONIS 4.4 CELONIS 4.5 CELONIS 4.6 CELONIS 4.7

Description

LEFT returns the first n characters of a string. If the string is smaller than n characters, the whole string is returned.

Supported input column types: STRING

Output column type: STRING

Syntax

LEFT ( table.column, n )

If n is zero or negative, an empty STRING will be returned for all input, except NULL.

If the input value is NULL, the result is NULL as well.

[1] Get first character of string.

Query

LEFT ( "Table1"."Column1" , 1 )

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