Remove all line breaks at the beginning of a string in Swift

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If it is acceptable that newline (and other whitespace) characters are removed from both ends of the string then you can use

let string = "\n\nBLA\nblub"
let trimmed = string.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet())
// In Swift 1.2 (Xcode 6.3):
let trimmed = (string as NSString).stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet())

To remove leading newline/whitespace characters only you
can (for example) use a regular expression search
and replace:

let trimmed = string.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("^\\s*",
    withString: "", options: .RegularExpressionSearch)

"^\\s*" matches all whitespace at the beginning of the string.
Use "^\\n*" to match newline characters only.

Update for Swift 3 (Xcode 8):

let trimmed = string.replacingOccurrences(of: "^\\s*", with: "", options: .regularExpression)

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