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TrimLeft function

In unit sysutils

Trim whitespace from the beginning of a string.

Declaration

pascal
function TrimLeft(const S: ansistring): ansistring

Description

Trim strips blank characters (spaces and control characters) at the beginning of S and returns the resulting string. All characters with ordinal values less than or equal to 32 (a space) are stripped.

If the string contains only spaces, an empty string is returned.

Errors

None.

See also

Example: ex85

pascal
Program Example85;

{ This program demonstrates the TrimLeft function }

Uses sysutils;
{$H+}

Procedure Testit (S : String);

begin
  Writeln ('"',TrimLeft(S),'"');
end;

Begin
  Testit ('  ha ha what gets lost ? ');
  Testit (#10#13'haha ');
  Testit ('              ');
End.

An experiment, built from development snapshots. Not the official Free Pascal or Lazarus documentation.