LTrim(string) : Returns a copy of a string without leading spaces.
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function LTrim(str)
/***
PURPOSE: Remove leading blanks from our string.
IN: str - the string we want to LTrim
RETVAL: An LTrimmed string!
***/
{
var whitespace = new String(" \t\n\r");
var s = new String(str);
if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(0)) != -1) {
// We have a string with leading blank(s)...
var j=0, i = s.length;
// Iterate from the far left of string until we
// don't have any more whitespace...
while (j < i && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(j)) != -1)
j++;
// Get the substring from the first non-whitespace
// character to the end of the string...
s = s.substring(j, i);
}
return s;
}
