Searches a string from right to left and returns a substring.

Syntax

@LeftBack( stringToSearch ; numToSkip ) or
@LeftBack( stringToSearch ; startString )

Parameters

stringToSearch

Text or text list. The string where you want to find the leftmost characters.

Number. Counting from right to left, the number of characters to skip. All the characters to the left of that number of characters are returned. If the number is negative, the entire string is returned.

Text. A substring of stringToSearch. All the characters to the left of startString are returned.

resultString

Text or text list. The leftmost characters in stringToSearch. The number of characters returned is determined by either numToSkip or startString.

If the first parameter is a list, the function operates on each element of the list, and the return value is a list with the same number of elements.

Language cross-reference

StrLeftBack function of LotusScript language

Example
See Also

@Begins
@Contains
@Ends
@Left
@Middle
@MiddleBack
@Right
@RightBack
Locating and extracting substrings
"Creating context-sensitive help for applications" on the Lotus Developer Domain
"Simplifying your LotusScript with the Evaluate statement" on the Lotus Developer Domain

Glossary