voku / portable-utf8

   *

   * @return string <p>The string with unwanted characters stripped from the left.</p>

   */

  public static function ltrim($str = '', $chars = INF)

  {

    $str = (string)$str;

    if (!isset($str[0])) {

      return '';

    }

    // Info: http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/9/php_tip_how_strip_punctuation_characters_web_page#Unicodecharactercategories

    if ($chars === INF || !$chars) {

      return preg_replace('/^[\pZ\pC]+/u', '', $str);

    }

    return preg_replace('/^' . self::rxClass($chars) . '+/u', '', $str);

  }

  /**

   * Returns the UTF-8 character with the maximum code point in the given data.

   *

   * @return string <p>The string with unwanted characters stripped from the right.</p>

   */

  public static function rtrim($str = '', $chars = INF)

  {

    $str = (string)$str;

    if (!isset($str[0])) {

      return '';

    }

    // Info: http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/9/php_tip_how_strip_punctuation_characters_web_page#Unicodecharactercategories

    if ($chars === INF || !$chars) {

      return preg_replace('/[\pZ\pC]+$/u', '', $str);

    }

    return preg_replace('/' . self::rxClass($chars) . '+$/u', '', $str);

  }

  /**

   * rxClass