lstrip

lstrip(string, [chars])

Return string with any leading whitespace removed. If chars (a character, or vector or set of characters) is provided, instead remove characters contained in it.

Examples

Remove leading whitespace from a string:
```
julia> lstrip("   Hello, Julia!")
"Hello, Julia!"
```
This example removes leading whitespace from the string " Hello, Julia!".
Remove specific characters from the beginning of a string:
```
julia> lstrip("###Julia is awesome!", ['#', '!', ' '])
"Julia is awesome!"
```
It removes the characters #, !, and whitespace from the beginning of the string.
Handle empty or whitespace-only strings:
```
julia> lstrip(" ")
""
```
It returns an empty string when the input string is either empty or contains only whitespace.

Common mistake example:

julia> lstrip("Julia is great!", 'J')
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching lstrip(::String, ::Char)

In this example, the second argument provided to lstrip is a character instead of an array or set of characters. To remove a specific character, it should be passed as an array or set.

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