topic String Function in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/String-Function/m-p/501188#M688234 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><BR />I am trying to get he first 3 letters of a char string ex: ABC0000123 . How do I do this?</P><P>I do not see the substring function though. Is there any other string function which can possibly do it?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Nov 2013 05:54:09 GMT 2013-11-28T05:54:09Z String Function https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/String-Function/m-p/501188#M688234 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><BR />I am trying to get he first 3 letters of a char string ex: ABC0000123 . How do I do this?</P><P>I do not see the substring function though. Is there any other string function which can possibly do it?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Nov 2013 05:54:09 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/String-Function/m-p/501188#M688234 2013-11-28T05:54:09Z Re: String Function https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/String-Function/m-p/501189#M688235 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Anitha,</P><P>Try Left () Function specifying the character limit as the second parameter.</P><P>Here,</P><P></P><P>Left(<SPAN style="font-size: 8pt;">'ABC0000123 ',3) .</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Nov 2013 06:07:12 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/String-Function/m-p/501189#M688235 2013-11-28T06:07:12Z Re: String Function https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/String-Function/m-p/501190#M688236 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks a lot ...</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Nov 2013 06:09:28 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/String-Function/m-p/501190#M688236 2013-11-28T06:09:28Z