This XFCN will strip off a certain character from a string, given the string, and the character to look for. If you specify "LeadingOnly", all characters of the type you specify wil l be stripped until it encounters a different character.
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put stripchar("Nebraska Cornhuskers","s") into msg --> "Nebraka Cornhuker"
put stripchar(" 0.032"," ","LeadingOnly") into n --> "0.032"
put stripchar("AARDVARK","A","LeadingOnly") into animal --> "RDVARK"