ltrim strips more than needed

Question

Is there a way to limit exactly what ltrim removes in PHP.

I had a the following outcome:

$str = \"axxMyString\";
$newStr = ltrim($str, \"ax\");
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Answer 1

If you know that the first two characters should be stripped, use:

$str = substr($str, 2);

ltrim($str, $chars) removes every occurence from $chars from the left side of the string.

If you only want to strip the first two characters when these equals ax, you would use:

if (substr($str, 0, 2) == 'ax') $str = substr($str, 2);

• Manual page on ltrim()
• Manual page on substr()