How to remove whitespaces from the beginning of a string in JS

Whitespaces in Java

In JavaScript, there is a method called, trimStart() in string. This method is used to remove the whitespaces only from the beginning of a string. The starting whitespace characters in the original string are deleted which produces a new string. The original string is unaffected by the trimStart() technique.

The whitespace symbols in JavaScript are the following:

  • The “space” character.
  • An asterisk (*) with a carriage return ().
  • A new line of text.
  • The “tab” character.
  • A character with a vertical tab.
  • A character for form feeds.

Syntax

String.trimStart();

Parameter

It doesn’t have any parameters.

Return value

trimStart() removes the beginning whitespace characters from the input string and returns a new string.

Example

var str = "    eductive.io";//string declaration with whitespace
console.log("Input String >>", str); // print input string
console.log("String and it's length before using trimStart method >> ", str.length);
var trimmedStr = str.trimStart();// trimStart method
console.log("After using trimStart method input String >>", trimmedStr);
console.log("String and it's length after using trimStart method >> ", trimmedStr, trimmedStr.length);
// Resultant string after removal of whitespaces.

Explanation

  • Line 1: We assign a string which contains whitespace into a variable str.

  • Line 2: We print the str variable.

  • Line 3: We print the length of the str.

  • Line 4: After calling the str.trimStart() method, we store the return value in to another variable called trimmedStr.

  • Line 5: We print the variable trimmedStr.

  • Line 6: We finally print the length of the trimmedStr.

Note: We have removed the whitespaces from the beginning of the string using trimStart() method so the length of the trimmedStr is reduced.

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