Documentation for routine trim-leading assembled from the following pages:

Class: Allomorph §

From Allomorph

(Allomorph) method trim-leading §

method trim-leading(Allomorph:D:)

Calls Str.trim-leading on the invocant's Str value.

Class: Str §

From Str

(Str) method trim-leading §

method trim-leading(Str:D: --> Str)

Removes the whitespace characters from the beginning of a string. See also trim.

Class: Cool §

From Cool

(Cool) routine trim-leading §

Defined as:

sub trim-leading(Str(Cool))
method trim-leading()

Coerces the invocant (or in sub form, its argument) to Str, and returns the string with leading whitespace stripped.

my $stripped = '  abc '.trim-leading;
say "<$stripped>";          # OUTPUT: «<abc >␤»