String.trimStart Function
Removes leading white-space characters from a String object.
var trimmedStringVar = myString.trimStart();
Return Value
A copy of the string with all white-space characters removed from the start of the string.
Remarks
Use the trimStart function to remove leading white-space characters from the current String object. Examples of white-space characters are spaces and tabs.
Example
The following example shows how to use the trimStart function to remove leading white space from a current String object.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
<title>Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:ScriptManager runat="server" ID="ScriptManager1">
</asp:ScriptManager>
<script type="text/javascript">
// Determines if a string has a specific prefix as
// the first non white-space characters in a string.
function verifyString(myString, prefix)
{
// Remove any white space at the left of the string.
myString = myString.trimStart();
// Set to lower case.
myString = myString.toLowerCase();
// Determine if the string starts with the specified prefix.
var hasPrefix = myString.startsWith(prefix.toString());
if (hasPrefix === true)
{
alert("The string \"" + myString + "\" starts with \"" + prefix + "\"");
}
else
{
alert("The string \"" + myString + " does not start with \"" + prefix + "\"");
}
}
// Displays: The string "green_blue_red" starts with "green"
verifyString(" GREEN_BLUE_RED ", "green");
</script>
</form>
</body>
</html>