function LTrim(str)
 /***
 PURPOSE: Remove leading blanks from our string.
 IN: str - the string we want to LTrim
 RETVAL: An LTrimmed string!
 ***/
 {
 var whitespace = new String(" \t\n\r");
 var s = new String(str);
 if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(0)) != -1) {
 // We have a string with leading blank(s)...
 var j=0, i = s.length;
 // Iterate from the far left of string until we
 // don't have any more whitespace...
 while (j < i && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(j)) != -1)
 j++;
 // Get the substring from the first non-whitespace
 // character to the end of the string...
 s = s.substring(j, i);
 }
 return s;
 }

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