C# TrimStart with string parameter

Question

I\'m looking for String extension methods for TrimStart() and TrimEnd() that accept a string parameter.

I could build one myself but I\'m alw

Answer 1

I thought the question was trying to trim a specific string from the start of a larger string.

For instance, if I had the string "hellohellogoodbyehello", if you tried to call TrimStart("hello") you would get back "goodbyehello".

If that is the case, you could use code like the following:

string TrimStart(string source, string toTrim)
{
    string s = source;
    while (s.StartsWith(toTrim))
    {
        s = s.Substring(toTrim.Length - 1);
    }
    return s;
}

This wouldn't be super-efficient if you needed to do a lot of string-trimming, but if its just for a few cases, it is simple and gets the job done.