that’s the exact same thing except unfortunately there’s no substring there’s substitute but there’s no substring left and right is really the closest thing that we have so let’s kind of take a look real quick and see what we can do so we’re going to do left and it’s going to say return to specified number of characters from the start of a text string so we’re starting from the very far left and we need to choose our text and then choose the number of characters that we’re going to be looking over so let’s go over here and let’s just choose you know start simple we’ll get a little bit more advanced so we have this is our text range so these are the the ones that we want to look at and then how many characters do we want to look forward and we’ll just choose three as an example and so you can see that it takes the first three characters from every single thing now you can also do this with numbers it doesn’t just have to be you know name with with actual words or letters you can do the exact same thing so you can say write