ltrim Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string &reftitle.description; stringltrim stringstring stringcharacters" \n\r\t\v\x00" Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string. Without the second parameter, mb_ltrim will strip these characters: &strings.stripped.characters; &reftitle.parameters; string The input string. characters &strings.parameter.characters.optional; &reftitle.returnvalues; This function returns a string with whitespace stripped from the beginning of string. &reftitle.examples; Usage example of <function>ltrim</function> ]]> &example.outputs; &reftitle.seealso; trim rtrim