Left, Right, & Mid

Left, Right, & Mid

Extract characters using the left, right, and mid function. 

It was super useful to use the mid function to extract the area code and landline number (the 7 numbers after the area code).

There is more to learn such as using FIND and LEN functions and combining them together.


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