LTRIM$ function

Purpose

Return a copy of a string, with leading characters or strings removed.

Syntax

x$ = LTRIM$(MainString [, [ANY] MatchString])

Remarks

MainString is the string expression from which to remove characters, and MatchString is the string expression containing the characters to remove.

If MatchString is not specified, LTRIM$ removes leading spaces.  LTRIM$ returns a sub-string of MainString, from the first non-MatchString (or non-space) to the end of the string.  If MatchString (or a space) is not present at the beginning of MainString, all of MainString is returned.

If the ANY keyword is included, MatchString specifies a list of single characters to be searched for individually.  A match on any one of these as a leading character will cause the character to be removed from the result.

LTRIM$ is case sensitive.

See also

EXTRACT$, INSTR, LEFT$, MID$, REMOVE$, REPLACE, RIGHT$, RTRIM$, STRDELETE$, STRINSERT$, STRREVERSE$, TALLY, TRIM$, VERIFY

Example

A$ = "0123ABC3210"

A$ = LTRIM$(A$, ANY "0123456789")

Result

ABC3210