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Trim space chars from start of line

Hi.  I've got a little not so elegant script to trim spaces from the beginning of a line.  It handles if the whole line is full of spaces, but I was wondering if anyone out there has anything faster and is willing to share.

TIA, Alex Zavatone

Here's mine:

on TrimSpacesFromStartOfLine(myText)
set myLength to the length of myText
set myChar to character 1 of myText


repeat while (myChar = " ")
if myLength > 1 then
set myText to characters 2 through myLength of myText as string
set myLength to the length of myText
set myChar to character 1 of myText
else
set myText to ""
set myChar to ""
end if
end repeat


return myText
end TrimSpacesFromStartOfLine

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