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Re: Trim space chars from start of line

Hey there, on Mon Jul 25 18:10:30 2011, Zavatone, Alex wrote the following interesting missive:

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.

set source to "          1234               r"
set trimmed to TrimSpacesFromStartOfLine(source)

on TrimSpacesFromStartOfLine(myText)
if length of myText > 1 then
repeat
display dialog myText
if character 1 of myText is " " then
set myText to text 2 through end of myText
else
return myText
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end if
end TrimSpacesFromStartOfLine
trimmed

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