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snowflake.snowpark.functions.left

snowflake.snowpark.functions.left(str_expr: Union[Column, str], length: Union[Column, int]) Column[source]

Returns a left most substring of str_expr.

Example:

>>> df = session.create_dataframe([["abc"], ["def"]], schema=["a"])
>>> df.select(left(col("a"), 2).alias("result")).show()
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|"RESULT"  |
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|ab        |
|de        |
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