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--- title: strings.TrimLeft description: Returns a slice of a given string with all leading characters contained in the cutset removed. godocref: date: 2017-02-01 publishdate: 2017-02-01 lastmod: 2017-02-01 categories: [functions] menu: docs: parent: "functions" keywords: [strings] signature: ["strings.TrimLeft CUTSET STRING"] workson: [] hugoversion: relatedfuncs: [strings.TrimRight] deprecated: false aliases: [] --- Given the string `"abba"`, leading `"a"`'s can be removed a follows: {{ strings.TrimLeft "abba" "a" }} → "bba" Numbers can be handled as well: {{ strings.TrimLeft 1221 "12" }} → ""