Returns a substring from the beginning of a specified string — str_left • forstringr

Given a character vector, str_left() returns the left side of a string.

Usage

str_left(string, n = 1)

Arguments

string: The character from which the left portion will be returned.
n: Optional. The number of characters to return from the left side of string

Value

A character vector

See also

str_right() which extracts characters from the right and str_mid() which returns a segment of character strings.

Examples

str_left("Nigeria")
#> [1] "N"
str_left("Nigeria", n = 3)
#> [1] "Nig"
str_left(c("Female", "Male", "Male", "Female"))
#> [1] "F" "M" "M" "F"