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{ “title”: “left”, “language”: “en” }

left

Description

Syntax

VARCHAR left (VARCHAR str)

It returns the left part of a string of specified length, length is char length not the byte size.

example

mysql> select left("Hello doris",5);
+------------------------+
| left('Hello doris', 5) |
+------------------------+
| Hello                  |
+------------------------+

keywords

LEFT