{
  "comment" : "This is generated by ESQL's AbstractFunctionTestCase. Do not edit it. See ../README.md for how to regenerate it.",
  "type" : "scalar",
  "name" : "ltrim",
  "description" : "Removes leading whitespaces from a string.",
  "signatures" : [
    {
      "params" : [
        {
          "name" : "string",
          "type" : "keyword",
          "optional" : false,
          "description" : "String expression. If `null`, the function returns `null`."
        }
      ],
      "variadic" : false,
      "returnType" : "keyword"
    },
    {
      "params" : [
        {
          "name" : "string",
          "type" : "text",
          "optional" : false,
          "description" : "String expression. If `null`, the function returns `null`."
        }
      ],
      "variadic" : false,
      "returnType" : "keyword"
    }
  ],
  "examples" : [
    "ROW message = \"   some text  \",  color = \" red \"\n| EVAL message = LTRIM(message)\n| EVAL color = LTRIM(color)\n| EVAL message = CONCAT(\"'\", message, \"'\")\n| EVAL color = CONCAT(\"'\", color, \"'\")"
  ],
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}