ltrim

ltrim

Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string

string **ltrim** string $string string $characters

Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string.

Without the second parameter, will strip these characters: mb_ltrim

stringThe input string.

characters This function returns a string with whitespace stripped from the beginning of . string

**Voorbeeld: Usage example of **

<?php

$text = "\t\tThese are a few words :) ...  ";
$binary = "\x09Example string\x0A";
$hello  = "Hello World";
var_dump($text, $binary, $hello);

print "\n";


$trimmed = ltrim($text);
var_dump($trimmed);

$trimmed = ltrim($text, " \t.");
var_dump($trimmed);

$trimmed = ltrim($hello, "Hdle");
var_dump($trimmed);

// trim the ASCII control characters at the beginning of $binary
// (from 0 to 31 inclusive)
$clean = ltrim($binary, "\x00..\x1F");
var_dump($clean);

?>

string(32) "        These are a few words :) ...  "
string(16) "    Example string
"
string(11) "Hello World"

string(30) "These are a few words :) ...  "
string(30) "These are a few words :) ...  "
string(7) "o World"
string(15) "Example string
"

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