1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textsbasicshared03120305xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">LTrim Function [Runtime]</title> 28<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120305.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<section id="ltrim"> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147574"> 34<bookmark_value>LTrim function</bookmark_value> 35</bookmark> 36<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> 37<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> 38</section> 39<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154924" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 40<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148552" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">LTrim (Text As String)</paragraph> 41<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156344" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 42<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151056" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">String</paragraph> 43<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150543" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150792" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 45<emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression.</paragraph> 46<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> 47<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 48<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145419" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154909" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Sub ExampleSpaces</paragraph> 51<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> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149204" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">sText2 = " <*Las Vegas*> "</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159252" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">sOut = "'"+sText2 +"'"+ Chr(13)</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147350" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="16">sText = Ltrim(sText2) REM sText = "<*Las Vegas*> "</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153951" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">sOut = sOut + "'"+sText +"'" + Chr(13)</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153363" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="18">sText = Rtrim(sText2) REM sText = " <*Las Vegas*>"</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159154" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">sOut = sOut +"'"+ sText +"'" + Chr(13)</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154322" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="20">sText = Trim(sText2) REM sText = "<*Las Vegas*>"</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146924" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">sOut = sOut +"'"+ sText +"'"</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156444" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">MsgBox sOut</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147318" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">end sub</paragraph> 62</body> 63</helpdocument> 64