stripl

This function returns a text string corresponding to the input text string with the leading garbage characters stripped out.

Syntax

stripl(input, garbage)

Parameters

• input—Specifies the input text string.

• garbage—A text string that defines what characters are deemed to be garbage characters.

Remarks

The input text string can be another field mapping grammar function.

Garbage characters are stripped starting from the beginning of the input string and continuing until a character not defined in the garbage string is found in the input string.