$ltrim

Trims leading blanks from a character string.

$ltrim(string)

string

a character string or an expression that evaluates to a character string

Character string.

Use $ltrim to remove leading spaces from a character string.

For output purposes, the implicit length of the result returned by $ltrim is the same as the length of string.

$ltrim(Salary)

Evaluates to “20000” if Salary is 20,000 (INT data type).