ltrim() function in php

ltrim() function of PHP is used to remove some user-defined characters or white space from the left side of a PHP string. It is an inbuilt function of PHP. The return type of this function is a string.

Note:

Syntax:

here,

• $string is a PHP string from which we want to remove either some predefined texts or white space used by this function. It is mandatory.
• $characters are user-defined text which we want to remove from the given string. It is optional.

Example:

<?php
$str="Most welcome to coding tag";
$u_str=ltrim($str,"Most");
echo "Old string is : $str <br>";
echo "Modified string is : $u_str";
?>

Output: