pystr_lstrip: Left strip a string.

In pystr: Python String Methods in R

Description

Return a copy of the string with leading characters removed.

Usage

pystr_lstrip(str, chars = " ")

Arguments

str	A character vector.
chars	A character string.

Details

The chars argument is a string specifying the set of characters to be removed. If omitted, the chars argument defaults to removing whitespace. The chars argument is not a prefix; rather, all combinations of its values are stripped.

Value

A character vector.

References

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.lstrip

See Also

pystr_rstrip

Examples

pystr_lstrip("     spacious    ")
pystr_lstrip("www.example.com", "w.")

pystr documentation built on April 15, 2017, 12:30 a.m.