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strleft

Description

This function extracts a number of characters from a string with specified length (starting from left). The unit for length: utf8 character.

Syntax

VARCHAR strleft(VARCHAR str,INT len)

Examples

MySQL > select strleft("Hello starrocks",5);
+-------------------------+
|strleft('Hello starrocks', 5)|
+-------------------------+
| Hello                   |
+-------------------------+

keyword

STRLEFT