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Return a `bsl::string_view` object referring to the substring of (the referent data of) the specified `string` that excludes all leading whitespace. See {Whitespace Character Specification}. If `string` consists entirely of whitespace, return a zero‐length reference to the end of `string` (i.e., `bsl::string_view(string.end(), 0)`).

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlb_stringviewutil.h>`

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static
std::string_view
ltrim(std::string_view const& string);
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