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strleft	en

strleft

Description

Syntax

'VARCHAR STRAIGHT (VARCHAR STR)'

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

example

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

##keyword STRLEFT