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From nikunj vadsak
Subject Re: Didn't correct output for LTRIM function
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In response to Re: Didn't correct output for LTRIM function  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
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Thank you for the clarification. 

On Mon, 13 Jun 2022, 4:27 am Guillaume Lelarge, <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
Le lun. 13 juin 2022 à 10:06, PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> a écrit :
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First check the output of "select LTRIM('  startech academy ', '  sta');"   
  output is "rtech academy "
now the thing is output of "select LTRIM('  startech academy ', '  star');"
   output is "ech academy "
the question is where is 't'?


It's trimmed, because you asked t to be removed. It trims every single character at the beginning of the string till it encounters another character. The doc example makes it more clear:

ltrim('zzzytest', 'xyz') → test


The problem is when we do LTRIM for trimming the first four characters, it
trims the first five characters. but in the case of doing three characters,
it gives the correct output.

Both outputs are correct actually.


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Guillaume.

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