-- card: 5752 from stack: in
-- bmap block id: 8210
-- flags: 0000
-- background id: 3493
-- name: left


-- part 1 (button)
-- low flags: 00
-- high flags: A003
-- rect: left=88 top=211 right=233 bottom=188
-- title width / last selected line: 0
-- icon id / first selected line: 0 / 0
-- text alignment: 1
-- font id: 0
-- text size: 12
-- style flags: 0
-- line height: 16
-- part name: LEFT
----- HyperTalk script -----
on mouseUp
  put editString("LEFT", field A,cd fld num) into field B
end mouseUp



-- part 2 (field)
-- low flags: 00
-- high flags: 0002
-- rect: left=296 top=214 right=231 bottom=327
-- title width / last selected line: 0
-- icon id / first selected line: 0 / 0
-- text alignment: 0
-- font id: 97
-- text size: 9
-- style flags: 0
-- line height: 12
-- part name: num


-- part contents for background part 2
----- text -----
LEFT will return a substring portion of left side of an input string.  The function acts just like the BASIC language LEFT$ function.  This function is limited to strings only and will ignore any characters past position 255.

-- part contents for background part 1
----- text -----
LEFT

-- part contents for background part 3
----- text -----
editString("LEFT", source, numChars)
• source is the intput variable or field containing the text
• numChars is the length of the desired substring

put editString("LEFT", field A, 3) into field B   If field A is "abcdefg" the function will return "abc"

-- part contents for card part 2
----- text -----
3

-- part contents for background part 4
----- text -----
abcdefg

-- part contents for background part 5
----- text -----
abc