Remove white space from string

Question

I would like to remove the whitespace located after \n.

For instance, username 123\n ugas 423\n peter 23\n asd234 would become username 123\nugas 423\npeter 23\nasd234.

Answer 1

I am assuming you want to remove one or more whitespace characters at the beginning of each line, not just the first whitespace character. Also, I think you want to remove any kind of whitespace characters, like tabs, not just literal space characters.

import Data.Char

stripLeadingWhitespace :: String -> String
stripLeadingWhitespace = unlines . map (dropWhile isSpace) . lines

Answer 2

f [] = []
f ('\n':' ':a) = f ('\n' : a)
f (a:b) = a : f b