Simple regexp problem

[Michael Hudson]

Shane Hoversten <srh232 at nyu.edu> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> 	This question has gotta be real simple.  I want to remove
> preceeding whitespace from a string.  Seems like I should be able to
> say (using another example to make it easier to see):
> 
> re.sub("^1", "", "11111junk")

re.sub("^1*", "", "11111junk")

Maybe you should have another look at the docs...

But you do know about .lstrip(), right?

Cheers,
M.

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