Example: Remove leading whitespace from a string (inline)

public static int main (string[] args) {
string my_wisdom = " \t Don't worry, I'll soon fix that. ";
unowned string res = my_wisdom._chug ();

// Output:
// ``' Don't worry, I'll soon fix that. '``
// ``'Don't worry, I'll soon fix that. '``
print ("'%s'\n", my_wisdom);
print ("'%s'\n", res);

return 0;
}

 valac --pkg glib-2.0 string._chug.vala

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