ltrim strips more than needed

Question

Is there a way to limit exactly what ltrim removes in PHP.

I had a the following outcome:

$str = \"axxMyString\";
$newStr = ltrim($str, \"ax\");
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Answer 1

ltrim() manual:

Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string.

So...

$newStr = ltrim($str, "ax");

This will remove every character 'a' and 'x' at the beginning of string $str.

Use substr() to get part of string you need.