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Feb 2009 -- Due to time pressures, the ongoing development of 'rope' has been suspended temporarily.

ROPE Language Reference - "left"

The "left" action returns a number of characters from the left hand end of a string. It pops two items off the stack - the string and the length.

Example ..

left( "Hello" 2 ) print    # -- prints "He"
"Quick" 3 left print       # -- prints "Que"