======RemoveStart(text, length) ====== Category: Text function \\ =====Description===== This function returns //text// excluding the first //length// characters, including spaces. \\ =====Arguments===== ^Argument^Type^Description^ |text|Text|Any text value from which the leading //length// characters are removed.| |length|Number (Greater than 0)|The number of characters to remove from the start of //text//.| **Return value type:** Text \\ =====Remarks===== Number values entered for //text// are implicitly converted to text. Blank spaces and non-printing characters are counted as characters and removed. \\ =====Examples===== removestart('1000 USD', 5) //Returns 'USD' removestart('October 1, 2014', 11) //Returns '2014' removestart(100200, 3) //Returns '200' (Number implicitly converted to text; value is returned as text) removeend('North' & char(10) & 'South', 7) //Returns 'outh' (the line space - char(10) - counts as a character) \\ =====See also===== * [[syntax:functions:remove|Remove(text, start, length)]] * [[syntax:functions:removechars|RemoveChars(text, chars)]] * [[syntax:functions:removeend|RemoveEnd(text, length)]] * [[syntax:functions:removetext|RemoveText(text, string)]]