Text.Start

 

This topic applies to the Power Query Formula Language which can be used with Power Query and Power BI Desktop to build queries that mashup data. See the list of function categories.

Returns the count of characters from the start of a text value.

Text.Start(string as nullable text, count as number) as nullable text  

ArgumentDescription
stringThe string value to parse.
countThe number of characters to return.
Text.Start("abcd", 2) equals "ab"  

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