What is String.stripLeading in Java?

What is stripLeading()?

stripLeading() is an instance method that returns a string with all leading white spaces removed from the value.

Leading means it is at the beginning of the string. This method was introduced in Java 11.

If a string contains only white spaces, then applying this method results in an empty string.

Code

Let’s look at the following code example which shows how to implement stripLeading() in a Java program:

 class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String s = "    hello";
        System.out.println("" + s.stripLeading());
    }
}

Explanation

In the code above, we defined a string with leading and trailing white spaces. On applying the stripLeading() method, only the leading white spaces are removed.

The code will print "hello " and exit.

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