how do I count spaces at the beginning of a string?

[Steven Howe]

Paul McGuire wrote:

On May 16, 9:02 pm, walterbyrd <walterb... at iname.com> wrote:

> The strings start with whitespace, and have a '*' or an alphanumeric
> character. I need to know how many whitespace characters exist at the
> beginning of the string.
>   


using buitlin function len() and lstrip()

    ax = '    asdfjlwese   asdfasl '
    len( ax ) - len( ax.lstrip() )

sph
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