On 28 October 2016 12:01:16 BST, Narcis Garcia <informatica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hello, I have a string (I quote here only) as: > >' <table>...</table>' > >As you can see there are 3 spaces at the beginning, but it could be 0 >or >4 or any number of spaces. >How can I get a string with only the initial spaces part? > >' <table>...</table>' -> ' ' >'hello' -> '' >' hello' -> ' ' > >Thanks. Have you tried regular expressions? Something like: ^( )*[^ ] The first captured match is the number of spaces, from 0 to any amount. Not the space between the brackets and before the closing square bracket Ash -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php