topic left function in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/left-function/m-p/844707#M296656 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>How is it possible to load values of some field on the backfront so that only the first 3 symbols could be loaded?</P><P></P><P>Thank you in advance,</P><P></P><P>Larisa</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:56:44 GMT Anonymous 2015-07-09T18:56:44Z left function https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/left-function/m-p/844707#M296656 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>How is it possible to load values of some field on the backfront so that only the first 3 symbols could be loaded?</P><P></P><P>Thank you in advance,</P><P></P><P>Larisa</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:56:44 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/left-function/m-p/844707#M296656 Anonymous 2015-07-09T18:56:44Z Re: left function https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/left-function/m-p/844708#M296657 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>May be this:</P><P></P><P><STRONG>Left(YourFieldName, 3)</STRONG></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:57:46 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/left-function/m-p/844708#M296657 sunny_talwar 2015-07-09T18:57:46Z Re: left function https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/left-function/m-p/844709#M296658 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You mean</P><P></P><P>Load(FieldName,3) as NewFieldName</P><P></P><P>My Mistake:</P><P>Updated:</P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">Left(FieldName,3) as NewFieldName</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:57:56 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/left-function/m-p/844709#M296658 MK_QSL 2015-07-09T18:57:56Z Re: left function https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/left-function/m-p/844710#M296659 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>FIRST 3 LOAD</P><P>*</P><P>FROM xyz.txt (txt);</P><P></P><P>Load the first 3 rows of the source</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:58:15 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/left-function/m-p/844710#M296659 petter 2015-07-09T18:58:15Z