left characters of a string
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Danielle Leblanc
on 6 Jul 2011
Answered: Steven Lord
on 26 Nov 2022
if I have a name 'Microsoft', how can i get the first 6 characters 'Micros'?
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Andrei Bobrov
on 6 Jul 2011
name = 'Microsoft'
out = name(1:6)
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Stephen23
on 26 Nov 2022
name = 'Microsoft';
name(1:min(end,6))
name = 'Cat';
name(1:min(end,6))
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Steven Lord
on 26 Nov 2022
This wasn't an option when the question was originally asked, but the extractBefore function will work for both char vectors and string arrays.
c = 'Microsoft'
c6 = extractBefore(c, 7)
s = string(c)
s6 = extractBefore(s, 7)
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