How should I remove all the leading spaces from a string? - swift

I need a way to remove the first character from a string which is a space. I am looking for a method or even an extension for the String type that I can use to cut out a character of a string.

Solution

To remove leading and trailing whitespaces:

let trimmedString = string.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceCharacterSet())

Swift 3 / Swift 4:

let trimmedString = string.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespaces)