ltrim Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string &reftitle.description; stringltrim stringstring stringcharacters" \n\r\t\v\x00" Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string. &reftitle.parameters; string The input string. characters You can also specify the characters you want to strip, by means of the characters parameter. Simply list all characters that you want to be stripped. With .. you can specify a range of characters. &reftitle.returnvalues; This function returns a string with whitespace stripped from the beginning of string. Without the second parameter, ltrim will strip these characters: " " (ASCII 32 (0x20)), an ordinary space. "\t" (ASCII 9 (0x09)), a tab. "\n" (ASCII 10 (0x0A)), a new line (line feed). "\r" (ASCII 13 (0x0D)), a carriage return. "\0" (ASCII 0 (0x00)), the NUL-byte. "\v" (ASCII 11 (0x0B)), a vertical tab. &reftitle.examples; ]]> &example.outputs; &reftitle.seealso; trim rtrim