Question

Occasionally, my email-to-support-ticket system catches an extra line break before the message itself, thus my messages look like this:

“

Hello. I have been wondering if y…”

What can I use to get rid of that line before the text? It is on random occasion due to email providers and the way they format their emails using mime.
I have already tried the trim functions but no luck. (Yes, I also tried ltrim)

Once processed it should look like:

“Hello. I have been wondering if y…”

Answer 1

Threw this together, you could rename the function if need be.

function removeDeadSpaceBeforeFirstChar($string) {
    $strtemp = $string;

    for($i = 0; $i < strlen($strtemp); $i++) {
        if($strtemp[$i] == " ") {
            $strtemp = substr($strtemp, $i, strlen($strtemp)); 
        }

        if($i > 0 && $strtemp[$i] != " ") {
            return $strtemp;
            break;  
        }
    }
    return false;
}

Prints this:

      123456789
123456789

EDIT: I don’t know why I posted the results like that, I was looking over the code and it hit me that I didn’t do anything with the substr.. Above is the amended code