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Trim Left

Trim spaces from the beginning of a string via "FOR" command.

Description: Use the FOR command to trim spaces at the beginning of a variable. In this example the variable to be trimmed is str.

Script:

1. 2. 3. 4. set str= 15 Leading spaces to truncate echo."%str%" for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ("%str%") do set str=%%a echo."%str%"

Script Output:

Script Output

"               15 Leading spaces to truncate"
"15 Leading spaces to truncate"