trimLeft

trimLeft is a string method found in various programming languages, designed to remove whitespace characters from the beginning of a string. Whitespace typically includes spaces, tabs, newlines, and carriage returns. The method operates by examining the string from its leftmost character and continues to remove any whitespace it encounters until it reaches a non-whitespace character. Once a non-whitespace character is found, the method returns the remainder of the string, including all subsequent characters. If the original string consists entirely of whitespace, trimLeft will return an empty string. This method is useful for cleaning up user input or data that may have leading whitespace that is not desired for processing. Different programming languages may have slightly varying implementations or names for this functionality, but the core purpose of removing leading whitespace remains consistent. For instance, JavaScript has a trimStart() method which is an alias for trimLeft().