Trim whitespace from beginning of string (LUA)

A basic implementation to strip leading whitespace from a string lua

Similar To

• PHP: ltrim()
• Python: lstrip()

Details

• Language: LUA

Snippet

function ltrim(s)
  return s:match'^%s*(.*)'
end

Usage Example

local a = ' abcde fg    '
print( a )
print(ltrim(a))