cudf.core.column.string.StringMethods.lstrip#
- StringMethods.lstrip(to_strip: str | None = None) SeriesOrIndex [source]#
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
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