LTrim

Trim leading whitespace from a string.

If chars is provided, each character in the string is treated as a character to trim instead of whitespace.

Method Signature

LTrim(string=[string], chars=[string])

Arguments

Argument

Type

Required

Description

Default

string

true

The string to trim

chars

string

false

An optional string of characters to trim. Each character is treated individually.

Examples

Left Trim

Run Example

">" & lTrim( "    BLDocs    " ) & "<";

Result: >BLDocs <

Additional Examples

Run Example

// create variable with a string of text that has leading and trailing spaces
foo = " Hello World!  ";
// output variable
writeDump( "-" & foo & "-" );
// output variable without leading spaces
writeDump( "-" & LTrim( foo ) & "-" );

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