EdmFunctions.Left(DbExpression, DbExpression) Method

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Definition

Namespace:
System.Data.Entity.Core.Common.CommandTrees.ExpressionBuilder
Assembly:
EntityFramework.dll

Creates a DbFunctionExpression that invokes the canonical 'Left' function with the specified arguments, which must have a string and integer numeric result type. The result type of the expression is string.

public static System.Data.Entity.Core.Common.CommandTrees.DbFunctionExpression Left (this System.Data.Entity.Core.Common.CommandTrees.DbExpression stringArgument, System.Data.Entity.Core.Common.CommandTrees.DbExpression length);
static member Left : System.Data.Entity.Core.Common.CommandTrees.DbExpression * System.Data.Entity.Core.Common.CommandTrees.DbExpression -> System.Data.Entity.Core.Common.CommandTrees.DbFunctionExpression
<Extension()>
Public Function Left (stringArgument As DbExpression, length As DbExpression) As DbFunctionExpression

Parameters

stringArgument
DbExpression

An expression that specifies the string from which to extract the leftmost substring.

length
DbExpression

An expression that specifies the length of the leftmost substring to extract from stringArgument.

Returns

DbFunctionExpression

A new DbFunctionExpression that returns the the leftmost substring of length length from stringArgument.

Applies to