breaker of stuff, destroyer of things

flash doesn’t have trim functions. Luckily for us someone else saved us time and made them

// parameters:
// matter, string to be trimmed
// returns:
// string, whitespaces removed from left side.

function ltrim(matter) {
if ((matter.length>1) || (matter.length == 1 && matter.charCodeAt(0)>32 && matter.charCodeAt(0)<255)) {
i = 0;
while (i=255)) {
i++;
}
matter = matter.substring(i);
} else {
matter = “”;
}
return matter;
}

// parameters:
// matter, string to be trimmed

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