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quick one - remove leading spaces. 1

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BIS

BIS

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Jun 1, 2001
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Hallo Again...

I have this to remove trailing spaces:

# Remove trailing spaces.
{ sub(/[ \t]+$/, "") }


How would I remove leading spaces?

(Yes I am getting tired...)
 
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{ sub(/^[ \t]+/, "") }

Hope This Helps, PH.
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Thanks PHV - much appreciated....
 
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