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LTRIM
scans a text expression from left to right and removes all the characters that match the characters in the trim expression, until it finds an unmatched character. The data type of the return value is the same as the original text.
Return Value
CHAR | NCHAR | VARCHAR2 | NVARCHAR2
Syntax
LTRIM(char [, set ])
Arguments
char
is the text expression to be trimmed.
set
is a text expression with the characters to remove. The default value of set
is a single blank.
Examples
LTRIM(' . . . .Last Word', ' .')
returns the value Last Word
.