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  Function            ltrim - trims leading blanks

  Syntax              char *ltrim(char *source);

  Prototype in        stringhk.h

  Remarks             remove leading blanks in a string. The string
                      passed to ltrim (source) is modified.

  Return value        returns a pointer to source.

  Example             #include <stringhk.h>
                      #include <stdio.h>            /* for the printf */

                      main()
                      {
                           char msg[25] = "  Hello everyone   ";

                           printf("String [%s]\n",msg);
                           printf("ltrim  [%s]\n",ltrim(msg));
                      }

  Program output      String [  Hello everyone   ]
                      ltrim  [Hello everyone   ]


See Also: atrim() rtrim()
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