From: Philip Mak <pmak@...>
Date: 2002-06-10T08:40:15+09:00
Subject: String.left?

Is there a function that acts like String.left? I'd like to be able to
get the leftmost x characters of the string. e.g.:

"1234567890".left(4) => "1234"
"x".left(4) => "x"