return just part of string

How do I return just say the fist 5 characters in a string? I would like to return them as a string themselves.

[Aladin Akyurek]

On 2002-03-12 13:39, Anonymous wrote:
How do I return just say the fist 5 characters in a string? I would like to return them as a string themselves.

=LEFT(A1,5)

where A1 houses a target string.