John P.R. Archer wrote:
A pre-historical note: The built-in 'add ons':- TRIM - remove trailing blanks LTRIM - remove leading blanks
have always existed in Pascal/VS and then VS/Pascal - IBM mainframe implementation - very old....
GPC has Trim{Left,Right,Both}Str as functions and Trim{Left,Right,Both} as procedures in the GPC unit (besides the built-in Trim). I can add LTrim as a synonym for TrimLeftStr in the unit.
Frank