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# ExcludeLeadingPathDelimiter

Strip the leading path delimiter of a path

## Declaration

Source position: finah.inc line 36

`function ExcludeLeadingPathDelimiter(`
`const Path: string`
`):string;`

## Description

ExcludeLeadingPathDelimiter will remove any path delimiter on the first position of Path if there is one. if there is none (or the path is empty), it is left untouched.

## See also

IncludeTrailingPathDelimiter |  | Add trailing directory separator to a pathname, if needed.
IncludeLeadingPathDelimiter |  | Prepend a path delimiter if there is not already one.
ExcludeTrailingPathDelimiter |  | Strip trailing directory separator from a pathname, if needed.
ConcatPaths |  | Concatenate an array of paths to form a single path

## Example

    Program Example95;

    { This program demonstrates the IncludeLeadingPathDelimiter function }

    Uses sysutils;

    Begin
      // Will print "/this/path"
      Writeln(IncludeLeadingPathDelimiter('this/path'));
      // The same result
      Writeln(IncludeLeadingPathDelimiter('/this/path'));
    End.

Documentation generated on: Feb 26 2014