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Oracle® OLAP Expression Syntax Reference
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LTRIM

LTRIM scans a text expression from left to right and removes all the characters that match the characters in the trim expression, until it finds an unmatched character. The data type of the return value is the same as the original text.

Return Value

CHAR | NCHAR | VARCHAR2 | NVARCHAR2

Syntax

LTRIM(char [, set ])

Arguments

char is the text expression to be trimmed.

set is a text expression with the characters to remove. The default value of set is a single blank.

Examples

LTRIM(' . . . .Last Word', ' .') returns the value Last Word.

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