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JustLeft()

Left justifies characters in a character string.

Syntax

JustLeft( <cString>, [<xChar>] ) --> cResult

Arguments

<cString>

This is the string to process.

<xChar>

This is a single character or its numeric ASCII code that is searched at the beginning of <cString>. It defaults to a blank space (Chr(32)).

Return

The function searches <xChar> at the beginning of <cString> and moves all <xChar> from the beginning to the end. The modified string is returned.

Info

See also:	Center(), JustRight()
Category:	CT:String manipulation , Character functions
Source:	ct\justify.c
LIB:	xhb.lib
DLL:	xhbdll.dll

Example

// The example displays results of JustLeft()

   PROCEDURE Main
      LOCAL cStr1 := "   xHarbour"
      LOCAL cStr2 := "....ABCD"

      ? ">"+JustLeft( cStr1 )+"<"       // result: >xHarbour   <

      ? ">"+JustLeft( cStr2, "." )+"<"  // result: >ABCD....<
   RETURN