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## Overview
**`lstrip`** in Ruby is used to remove the leading whitespace characters in a string. 

A **whitespace character** could be a space, null, horizontal tab, line feed, vertical tab, form feed, or carriage return.

## Syntax
```ruby
str.lstrip
```
where `str` is the string whose leading whitespace characters we want to remove.

## Parameters
This function doesn't take any parameters.

## Return value
It returns the string `str` with any leading whitespace characters removed.

## Code example


# create strings
str1 = "    Edpresso"
str2 = "is"
str3 = "\n\t\rThe"
str4 = "\Best     !"

# remove leading 
# whitespace characters
a = str1.lstrip
b = str2.lstrip
c = str3.lstrip
d = str4.lstrip

# print results
puts a
puts b
puts c
puts d

## Explanation
* **Lines 2-5:** We create some strings from which we want to remove the leading whitespace characters.

* **Lines 9-12:** We use the `lstrip` method to remove the leading whitespace characters from the strings and store the returned values in variables `a`, `b`, `c`, and `d`.

* **Lines 15-18:** We print the results to the console.

What is lstrip in Ruby?

Removes leading whitespace characters from a string, including spaces, tabs, and line feeds.