{{fbdoc item="title" value="LTRIM"}}----
Removes surrounding substrings or characters on the left side of a string

{{fbdoc item="syntax"}}##
	[[KeyPgDeclare|declare]] [[KeyPgFunction|function]] **Ltrim** ( [[KeyPgByref|byref]] //str// [[KeyPgAs|as]] [[KeyPgConstQualifier|const]] [[KeyPgString|string]], [ **Any** ] [[KeyPgByref|byref]] //trimset// [[KeyPgAs|as]] [[KeyPgConstQualifier|const]] [[KeyPgString|string]] = " " ) [[KeyPgAs|as]] [[KeyPgString|string]]
	[[KeyPgDeclare|declare]] [[KeyPgFunction|function]] **Ltrim** ( [[KeyPgByref|byref]] //str// [[KeyPgAs|as]] [[KeyPgConstQualifier|const]] [[KeyPgWstring|wstring]], [ **Any** ] [[KeyPgByref|byref]] //trimset// [[KeyPgAs|as]] [[KeyPgConstQualifier|const]] [[KeyPgWstring|wstring]] = [[KeyPgWstr|Wstr]](" ") ) [[KeyPgAs|as]] [[KeyPgWstring|wstring]]
##
{{fbdoc item="usage"}}##
	//result// = **Ltrim**[$]( //str// [, [ **Any** ] //trimset// ] )
##
{{fbdoc item="param"}}
	##//str//##
		The source string.
	##//trimset//##
		The substring to trim.

{{fbdoc item="ret"}}
	Returns the trimmed string.

{{fbdoc item="desc"}}
	This procedure trims surrounding characters from the left (beginning) of a source string:
		- Substrings matching ##//trimset//## will be trimmed if specified, otherwise spaces ([[CptAscii|ASCII]] code 32) are trimmed.
		- If the ##**Any**## keyword is used, any character matching a character in ##//trimset//## will be trimmed.
	All comparisons are case-sensitive.

{{fbdoc item="ex"}}
{{fbdoc item="filename" value="examples/manual/strings/ltrim.bas"}}%%(freebasic)
dim s1 as string = "  101 Things to do."
print "'" + ltrim(s1) + "'"
print "'" + ltrim(s1, " 01") + "'"
print "'" + ltrim(s1, any " 01") + "'"

dim s2 as string = "BaaBaaBAA Test Pattern"
Print "'" + ltrim(s2, "Baa") + "'"
Print "'" + ltrim(s2, any "BaA") + "'"
%%
	will produce the output:

%%'101 Things to do.'
'  101 Things to do.'
'Things to do.'
'BAA Test Pattern'
' Test Pattern'
%%

{{fbdoc item="target"}}
	- DOS version/target of ""FreeBASIC"" does not support the wide-character version of ##**LTrim**##.

{{fbdoc item="lang"}}
	- The string type suffix "$" is required in the //[[CompilerOptlang|-lang qb]]// dialect.
	- The string type suffix "$" is optional in the //[[CompilerOptlang|-lang fblite]]// dialect.
	- The string type suffix "$" is ignored in the //[[CompilerOptlang|-lang fb]]// dialect, warn only with the //[[CompilerOptw|-w suffix]]// compile option (or //[[CompilerOptw|-w pedantic]]// compile option).

{{fbdoc item="diff"}}
	- QB does not support specifying a ##//trimset//## string or the ##ANY## clause.

{{fbdoc item="see"}}
	- ##[[KeyPgRtrim|Rtrim]]##
	- ##[[KeyPgTrim|Trim]]##

{{fbdoc item="back" value="CatPgString|String Functions"}}