JString::ltrim

UTF-8 aware replacement for ltrim()

Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string You only need to use this if you are supplying the charlist optional arg and it contains UTF-8 characters. Otherwise ltrim will work normally on a UTF-8 string

Signature

public function ltrim(string $str, [string $charlist = false] )

Parameters

$str

The string to be trimmed

$charlist

The optional charlist of additional characters to trim

Returns

string

The trimmed string