LTRIM

Syntax

Purpose

LTRIM removes characters from the left of char, with all the leftmost characters that appear in set removed; set defaults to a single blank. If char is a character literal, you must enclose it in single quotes. Oracle begins scanning char from its first character and removes all characters that appear in set until reaching a character not in set and then returns the result.

Example

SELECT LTRIM('xyxXxyLAST WORD','xy') "LTRIM example"
     FROM DUAL;

LTRIM example
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XxyLAST WORD