Removing all space in string before the first non space character

Question

The title says it all. I need to remove any existing space before reaching the first non space character.

For example, consider " Hello World" a string that we want to operate on. I need to convert it to "Hello World". How would I do that in PHP?

You can use [trim](http://php.net/trim) for removing spaces from both sides of a string. Or [ltrim](http://php.net/ltrim) for removing only from the left side. — Andrei, Jan 20 '16 at 16:09
Use [`ltrim()`](http://php.net/manual/en/function.ltrim.php) function. — Rajdeep Paul, Jan 20 '16 at 16:09
@Andrew, Rajdeep, if you provide that as answer I'll accept it. — Vahid Amiri, Jan 20 '16 at 16:11
I think http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1101322/trim-leading-white-space-with-php, is a better duplicate, the matched duplicate is for any whitespace, not specific to leading. — chris85, Jan 20 '16 at 16:14

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 20 '16 at 16:13

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Use ltrim() function to remove whitespaces from the beginning of a string.

$str = "        Hello World";
$sanitized_string = ltrim($str);
echo $sanitized_string;  // Hello World

answered Jan 20 '16 at 16:13

Rajdeep Paul

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