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         <td valign="top" class="name">LTRIM</td>
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Removes leading spaces from a string. 
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A copy of the string, without leading spaces.
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Display and formatting functions, String functions
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    <td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><span class="title">Function syntax</span><pre>LTrim(string)
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RTrim, ToBase64
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    <td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><span class="title">Example</span><pre>&lt;h3&gt;LTrim Example&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;cfif IsDefined(&quot;FORM.myText&quot;)&gt;
&lt;cfoutput&gt;
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Your string:   &quot;#FORM.myText#&quot;
Your string:   &quot;#LTrim(FORM.myText)#&quot;
(left trimmed)
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&lt;/cfoutput&gt;
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&lt;form action = &quot;ltrim.cfm&quot;&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Type in some text, and it will be modified by LTrim to remove 
leading spaces from the left
&lt;p&gt;&lt;input type = &quot;Text&quot; name = &quot;myText&quot; value = &quot;   TEST&quot;&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;input type = &quot;Submit&quot; name = &quot;&quot;&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;
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<p>A string or a variable that contains one</p>

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