/sys$common/syshlp/helplib.hlb RTL Routines, STR$, STR$LEFT  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    The Extract a Substring of a String routine copies a substring
    beginning at the first character of a source string into a
    destination string.

    Format

      STR$LEFT  destination-string ,source-string ,end-position

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