cudf.core.column.string.StringMethods.lstrip

StringMethods.lstrip(to_strip: str = None) → SeriesOrIndex

Remove leading and trailing characters.

Strip whitespaces (including newlines) or a set of specified characters from each string in the Series/Index from left side. Equivalent to str.lstrip().

Parameters

to_stripstr or None, default None

Specifying the set of characters to be removed. All combinations of this set of characters will be stripped. If None then whitespaces are removed.

Returns

Series or Index of object

See also

strip

Remove leading and trailing characters in Series/Index.

rstrip

Remove trailing characters in Series/Index.

Examples

>>> import cudf
>>> s = cudf.Series(['1. Ant.  ', '2. Bee!\n', '3. Cat?\t', None])
>>> s.str.lstrip('123.')
0     Ant.
1     Bee!\n
2     Cat?\t
3       <NA>
dtype: object