NWC Packaging PowerBench

Read-LeftString

The command copies a fixed number of characters starting at the left side of a string and stores the resulting string in a variable.

Settings:

• String
  Character string from which characters are to be copied.

• Number of characters to copy
  Number of characters to be copied from the string. If 0 is specified, no character is copied.
• Store result in
  Name of the variable in which the read out substring is to be stored. Specify only the name of the variable, not the $ sign and the curly brackets.

Example:

The example determines the drive letter of the system drive (without the colon) by reading the first left character from the environment variable %SystemDrive% and storing it in the local variable _DriveLetter:

Corresponds to DSM eScript command:

• StrLeft

See also:

• Read-IndexedWmiObject
• Read-IniFileValue

• Read-MidString
• Read-ReplacePattern
• Read-ReplaceString
• Read-RightString
• Read-StringElement
• Read-SystemDefaultLanguage
• Read-UserDefaultLanguage
• Read-WmiObject
• Read-WmiObjectCount
• Read-XmlNode
• Set-PdVar

• Set-PdVarDecrement
• Set-PdVarIncrement