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ltrim

Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string (PHP 4, PHP 5)
string ltrim ( string str [, string charlist] )

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

Parameters

str: The input string.
charlist: You can also specify the characters you want to strip, by means of the charlist parameter. Simply list all characters that you want to be stripped. With .. you can specify a range of characters.

Return Values

This function returns a string with whitespace stripped from the beginning of str. 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.
"\x0B" (ASCII 11 (0x0B)), a vertical tab.

ChangeLog

Version	Description
4.1.0	The `charlist` parameter was added.

Examples

Example 2419. Usage example of ltrim()

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<?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);



?>

The above example will output: