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Jagielski</history> 37*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</meta> 38*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<body> 39*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<section id="ltrim"> 40*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147574"><bookmark_value>LTrim function</bookmark_value> 41*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</bookmark> 42*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147574" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120305.xhp" name="LTrim Function [Runtime]">LTrim Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 43*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145316" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Removes all leading spaces at the start of a string expression.</paragraph> 44*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</section> 45*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154924" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 46*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148552" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">LTrim (Text As String)</paragraph> 47*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156344" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 48*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151056" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">String</paragraph> 49*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150543" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 50*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150792" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 51*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression.</paragraph> 52*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3125863" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Use this function to remove spaces at the beginning of a string expression.</paragraph> 53*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 54*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 55*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145419" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 56*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154909" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Sub ExampleSpaces</paragraph> 57*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Dim sText2 As String,sText As String,sOut As String</paragraph> 58*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149204" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">sText2 = " <*Las Vegas*> "</paragraph> 59*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159252" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">sOut = "'"+sText2 +"'"+ Chr(13)</paragraph> 60*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147350" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="16">sText = Ltrim(sText2) REM sText = "<*Las Vegas*> "</paragraph> 61*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153951" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">sOut = sOut + "'"+sText +"'" + Chr(13)</paragraph> 62*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="18">sText = Rtrim(sText2) REM sText = " <*Las Vegas*>"</paragraph> 63*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159154" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">sOut = sOut +"'"+ sText +"'" + Chr(13)</paragraph> 64*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154322" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="20">sText = Trim(sText2) REM sText = "<*Las Vegas*>"</paragraph> 65*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146924" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">sOut = sOut +"'"+ sText +"'"</paragraph> 66*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156444" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">MsgBox sOut</paragraph> 67*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147318" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">end sub</paragraph> 68*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</body> 69*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</helpdocument> 70