php ltrim many characters at once

Question

Hi is there a better and faster way to clean many characters from beginning of a string?

I have this one, but is this really the fastest way?

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Answer 1

the second parameter can be a charlist:

$description_new = ltrim($description_new, '#.,!?()');

You could also add a range of characters if it would suit your needs:

$clean = ltrim($binary, "\x00..\x1F");

Read about: function.ltrim