Showing posts with label quotleftquot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotleftquot. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

No "Left" function in Expression Builder?

Anyone know the reaon the Left function was left out of the list of string functions in the Expression Builder?

Danno

DannoCoy wrote:

Anyone know the reaon the Left function was left out of the list of string functions in the Expression Builder?

Danno

No. Annoying isn't it?

Instead you can use REVERSE(RIGHT())

-Jamie

|||I think SUBSTRING would be slightly faster for simple operations. You got your nesting the wrong way round as well, but we know what you mean.|||

DarrenSQLIS wrote:

I think SUBSTRING would be slightly faster for simple operations. You got your nesting the wrong way round as well, but we know what you mean.

Oh you're so picky :)