Description
Removes spaces from the beginning of a string.
Syntax
LeftTrim ( string {, removeallspaces } )
|
Argument |
Description |
|---|---|
|
string |
The string you want returned with leading spaces deleted |
|
removeallspaces |
A boolean indicating that all types of spaces should be deleted |
Return value
String.
Returns a copy of string with leading spaces deleted if it succeeds and the empty string ("") if an error occurs. If string is null, LeftTrim returns null.
Usage
If you do not include the optional removeallspaces argument or its value is false, only the space character (U+0020) is removed from the string.
If the removeallspaces argument is set to true, all types of space characters are removed.
This is a list of white spaces:
CHARACTER TABULATION (U+0009)
LINE FEED (U+000A)
LINE TABULATION (U+000B)
FORM FEED (U+000C)
CARRIAGE RETURN (U+000D)
SPACE (U+0020)
NO-BREAK SPACE (U+00A0)
EN QUAD (U+2000)
EM QUAD (U+2001)
EN SPACE (U+2002)
EM SPACE (U+2003)
THREE-PER-EM SPACE (U+2004)
FOUR-PER-EM SPACE (U+2005)
SIX-PER-EM SPACE (U+2006)
FIGURE SPACE (U+2007)
PUNCTUATION SPACE (U+2008)
THIN SPACE (U+2009)
HAIR SPACE (U+200A)
ZERO WIDTH SPACE (U+200B)
IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE (U+3000)
ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE (U+FEFF)
Examples
This statement returns RUTH when the leading spaces are all space characters:
LeftTrim(" RUTH")This statement returns RUTH when the leading spaces include other types of space characters such as tab characters:
LeftTrim(" RUTH", true)These statements delete leading spaces from the text in the MultiLineEdit mle_name and store the result in emp_name:
string emp_name emp_name = LeftTrim(mle_name.Text)
See also
LeftTrim method for DataWindows in the section called “LeftTrim” in DataWindow Reference.
