RPG BiF to get leftmost or rightmost characters Simon Hutchinson

Within the latest Technology Refreshes, IBM i 7.5 TR3 and 7.4 TR9, are a couple of new RPG Built in Functions, BiF, that can make it easier to get the leftmost or rightmost characters from another variable.
The new BiF are:

%LEFT: gets the leftmost characters
%RIGHT: gets the rightmost characters

The syntax is the same for them both:

Result = %left(< string or variable > : < number of characters to get > :
< charcount constant >) ;

Result = %right(< string or variable > : < number of characters to get > : < charcount constant >) ;