_chug

Removes leading whitespace from a string, by moving the rest of the characters forward.

This function doesn't allocate or reallocate any memory; it modifies string in place. Therefore, it cannot be used on statically allocated strings.

The pointer to string is returned to allow the nesting of functions.

Also see _chomp and _strip.

Example: Remove leading whitespace from a string (inline):

public static int main (string[] args) {
	string my_wisdom = "	\t Don't worry, I'll soon fix that.	";
	unowned string res = my_wisdom._chug ();

	// Output:
	//	 ``'		 Don't worry, I'll soon fix that.	'``
	//	 ``'Don't worry, I'll soon fix that.	'``
	print ("'%s'\n", my_wisdom);
	print ("'%s'\n", res);

	return 0;
}

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

Parameters:

string

a string to remove the leading whitespace from

Returns:

string