chug

Removes leading whitespace from a string.

Example: Remove leading whitespace from a string:

public static int main (string[] args) {
	string my_wisdom = "  \t I'll kill him with this deadly jelly baby!  ";
	string res = my_wisdom.chug ();

	// Output:
	//   ``'  	 I'll kill him with this deadly jelly baby!  '``
	//   ``'I'll kill him with this deadly jelly baby!  '``
	print ("'%s'\n", my_wisdom);
	print ("'%s'\n", res);

	return 0;
}

valac --pkg glib-2.0 string.chug.vala

Returns:

a newly-allocated string holding the result

See also:

string._chomp, string._chug, string._strip, string.chomp, string.strip