1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************************** 5 * 6 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7 * 8 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9 * 10 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11 * 12 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13 * 14 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17 * 18 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23 * 24 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28 * 29 ************************************************************************--> 30 31<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32<meta> 33<topic id="textsbasicshared03120305xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">LTrim Function [Runtime]</title> 35<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120305.xhp</filename> 36</topic> 37<history> 38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39<lastedited date="2005-01-03T15:50:42">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40</history> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<section id="ltrim"> 44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147574"><bookmark_value>LTrim function</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark> 46<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> 47<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> 48</section> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154924" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148552" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">LTrim (Text As String)</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156344" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151056" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">String</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150543" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150792" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 55<emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression.</paragraph> 56<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> 57<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 58<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 59<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145419" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154909" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Sub ExampleSpaces</paragraph> 61<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> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149204" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">sText2 = " <*Las Vegas*> "</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159252" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">sOut = "'"+sText2 +"'"+ Chr(13)</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147350" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="16">sText = Ltrim(sText2) REM sText = "<*Las Vegas*> "</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153951" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">sOut = sOut + "'"+sText +"'" + Chr(13)</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="18">sText = Rtrim(sText2) REM sText = " <*Las Vegas*>"</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159154" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">sOut = sOut +"'"+ sText +"'" + Chr(13)</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154322" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="20">sText = Trim(sText2) REM sText = "<*Las Vegas*>"</paragraph> 69<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146924" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">sOut = sOut +"'"+ sText +"'"</paragraph> 70<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156444" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">MsgBox sOut</paragraph> 71<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147318" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">end sub</paragraph> 72</body> 73</helpdocument> 74