left(string,2)

ummm, whatever "left" means. i''m going to assume you are talking about left justifying a string.

here''s the left justify method from my own string class. i removed the actual references to the class.

char *LeftJustify(char *pString, int iWidth) { int iCount, iIndex; /* calculate the number of characters to justify. */ iWidth -= (iIndex = (int)strlen(pString)); /* append trailing spaces. */ for (iCount = 0; iCount < iWidth; iCount++) { pString[iIndex] = '' ''; iIndex++; } /* append the null terminator character. */ pString[iIndex] = 0; return (pString); }

ohh, and there is no "left justify" function in the ANSI C library. i couldn''t tell you about ANSI C++ or MFC as i don''t use them, but you might want to check them out.

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Actually left takes everything from the left side of the string up to a specified number.

I would do something like:

memcpy(dest_string, src_string, chars_to_copy);

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And with STL strings:

string src("test"); string dst; dst = src.substr( 0, 2 );

I''m not sure, but is it possible that some of those equivalents need to be testing for whether the string is too short?

so: Left$("Hi", 3) should return "Hi" (which is the behaviour with the VB Left$

(also, note the $ sign, if you were going to do the C++ version of Left, it returns a VB variant which is poo)

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