djm wrote:

> On Oct 17, 8:27 pm, Shadowman <funqbjzna...@pbzpnfg.arg> wrote:
> > djm wrote:
> > > hello everyone. ive a string with a blank space at the start
> > > for eg:
> > > string str=" c++ rocks!";
> > > how can i chop of that blank space of the string and display?
> > > thanks

You can call it that if you want, but usually "chop" means to remove
the last character of a string. I've seen "ltrim" for removing leading
characters, there are probably other names.

> thanks shadow man. i used string::erase to do it
> did it like this
>
> string str (" c++ rocks!");
> str.erase (0,1);
> cout << str << endl;

This will always remove the first character (and only that one),
regardless of whether it's whitespace or not. Is that what you want?




Brian