LEFT function (Calc: 4.4.7.2)

Hello to everybody,

I am new about libreoffice (I used mostly excel in the past), I don’t understand why using the funcion LEFT I get the right result in the function dialog (10176.00) while in the cell I get just =LEFT(G2;08). Where G2 is a text field with value 10176.00.PME

Could anyone give me some advice?

Thank you in advance
AM

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