ltrim

  • Stripping whitespace from the beginning of a string is done in Ruby using the String#lstrip method.

    PHP

    $result = ltrim(" \nhello world");
var_export($result);
// => 'hello world'

    Ruby

    p " \nhello world".lstrip
# => "hello world"

    PHP’s ltrim function has a second argument to specify the characters to strip. We can do this in Ruby using the String#gsub method.

    PHP

    $result = ltrim(" /Users/joe/work/", "/ ");
var_export($result);
// => 'Users/joe/work/'

    Ruby

    chars = "/ "
p " /Users/joe/work/".gsub(/^[#{chars}]+/, '')
# => "Users/joe/work/"

    see also

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