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<function name="Left" parent="string" type="libraryfunc"> <description>Returns everything left of supplied place of that string.</description> <realm>Shared and Menu</realm> <file line="225">lua/includes/extensions/string.lua</file> <args> <arg name="str" type="string">The string to extract from.</arg> <arg name="num" type="number">Amount of chars relative to the beginning (starting from 1).</arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="string">Returns a string containing a specified number of characters from the left side of a string.</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Extracts "garry" from "garrys mod" string.</description> <code> local text = "garrys mod" print(string.Left(text, 5)) </code> <output>garry</output> </example>