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LTRIM()
Remove leading spaces from a character string
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Syntax
LTRIM(<cString>) --> cTrimString
Arguments
<cString> is the character string to copy without leading spaces.
Returns
LTRIM() returns a copy of <cString> with the leading spaces removed. If
<cString> is a null string ("") or all spaces, LTRIM() returns a null
string ("").
Description
LTRIM() is a character function that formats character strings with
leading spaces. These can be, for example, numbers converted to
character strings using STR().
LTRIM() is related to RTRIM(), which removes trailing spaces, and
ALLTRIM(), which removes both leading and trailing spaces. The inverse
of ALLTRIM(), LTRIM(), and RTRIM() are the PADC(), PADR(), and PADL()
functions which center, right-justify, or left-justify character strings
by padding them with fill characters.
Notes
. Space characters: The LTRIM() function treats carriage
returns, line feeds, and tabs as space characters and removes these
as well.
Examples
. These examples illustrate LTRIM() used with several other
functions:
nNumber = 18
? STR(nNumber) // Result: 18
? LEN(STR(nNumber)) // Result: 10
? LTRIM(STR(nNumber)) // Result: 18
? LEN(LTRIM(STR(nNumber))) // Result: 2
Files Library is CLIPPER.LIB.
See Also:
ALLTRIM()
PAD()
RTRIM()
STR()
SUBSTR()
TRIM()
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