Jay Willis wrote:

> Can someone please tell me how I can capture the first 6 bytes of
> HPSTREAMEDBY from within a Streamx job? This is what I'm getting so far:
>
>     :SETVAR VAR LFT(!HPSTREAMEDBY,1,6)
>     SETVAR VAR LFT(JAY.PDEV (#S98),1,6)

you're not using 'lft' correctly.

:help lft
Syntax:     LFT(string, # chars)

Defn:       A CI evaluator function that performs left string
            extraction.

Type:       String

Example:    lft('abc',2)
Result:     ab

so you want something like:  setvar var lft('!hpstreamedby',6)  <<< note the
quotes

hth          - d

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