Return a string reference with leading whitespace removed.

Synopsis

Declared in <bdlb_stringrefutil.h>

static
bslstl::StringRef
ltrim(bslstl::StringRef const& string);

Description

Return a bslstl::StringRef 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., bslstl::StringRef(string.end(), 0)).

Return Value

string reference with leading whitespace removed

Parameters

Name

Description

string

string whose leading whitespace is trimmed

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