categorized question QandAEditors I have a string, and I want to find which one of the following 3 characters come first (ie, is on the left-most side of a given string) ? <p> for example: <code> qwert(ui)" should return ( qwerty"(ff) should return " qwer)()(" should return ) </code> and so on. <p> THX 1826 2