PHP/String/ltrim

Left padding using the default of spaces

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<?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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