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

The second parameter species each character that will be trimmed. Because you defined both a and x the first the letters got removed from your string.

Just do:

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

and you should be fine.