PHP/String/ltrim
Left padding using the default of spaces
<source lang="html4strict">
<?php
printf("Space padding can be tricky in HTML %5d.", 42);
?>
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ltrim() function removes the whitespace and special characters from the left side of string
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Its syntax follows: string ltrim (string str) <? print ">".ltrim(" asdf ")."<"; ?>
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ltrim() function to strip white space only from the beginning of a string.
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<?php $text = "\t\t\tlots of room "; $text = ltrim( $text );
print "$text";
?>
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