New VariableAssignLeft() is a built-in function that may appear within any expression. As shown below, it may therefore only appear in green fields (green denotes an expression).
| Usage: | Left(string, character count) |
| Syntax: | Left(expression, expression) |
Function names are not case sensitive.
Both the string and character count may be expressed as expressions embedded within the function arguments.
| Example: | New Variable |
today | init | Left( timestamp, 8) | initialize today variable with today's date |
| Example: | Assign |
network | = | Left( IP, 3) | assign first 3 characters of IP to variable network |