extract_left

Written by Balazs Halasy, 02/05/2004 Updated 04/17/2012 by Geir Arne Waaler Maintainers: Balazs Halasy, Geir Arne Waaler

Summary

Returns a portion of the start of the input string.

Usage

$input_string|extract_left( length )

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
length	integer	The number of characters that should be extracted.	Yes.

Returns

A string containing a chunk of the input string.

Description

This operator extracts a portion from the start of the input string. The "length" parameter must be used to define the length (number of characters) of the portion.

Examples

Example 1

{'Gooooood morning Vietnam!'|extract_left( 8 )}

The following output will be produced: "Gooooood".

Contributors

Balazs Halasy Author 02/05/2004 Maintainer
Geir Arne Waaler Updated 04/17/2012 Maintainer

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