快速解决方案:

用法:

let txt = "        hello world     "
let txt1 = txt.trimStart() // "hello world     "
let txt2 = txt.trimEnd()   // "        hello world"

用法二:

let txt = "rr rrr rrhello world r r r r r r"
let txt1 = txt.trimStart(["r", " "]) // "hello world r r r r r r"
let txt2 = txt.trimEnd(["r", " "])   // "rr rrr rrhello world"

如果你需要移除字符串中的所有空白:

txt.replace(of: " ", to: "")

public extension String {
    func trimStart(_ char: Character) -> String {
        return trimStart([char])
    }
    
    func trimStart(_ symbols: [Character] = [" ", "\t", "\r", "\n"]) -> String {
        var startIndex = 0
        
        for char in self {
            if symbols.contains(char) {
                startIndex += 1
            }
            else {
                break
            }
        }
        
        if startIndex == 0 {
            return self
        }
        
        return String( self.substring(from: startIndex) )
    }
    
    func trimEnd(_ char: Character) -> String {
        return trimEnd([char])
    }
    
    func trimEnd(_ symbols: [Character] = [" ", "\t", "\r", "\n"]) -> String {
        var endIndex = self.count - 1
        
        for i in (0...endIndex).reversed() {
            if symbols.contains( self[i] ) {
                endIndex -= 1
            }
            else {
                break
            }
        }
        
        if endIndex == self.count {
            return self
        }
        
        return String( self.substring(to: endIndex + 1) )
    }
}

/////////////////////////
/// ACCESS TO CHAR BY INDEX
////////////////////////
extension StringProtocol {
    subscript(offset: Int) -> Character { self[index(startIndex, offsetBy: offset)] }
    subscript(range: Range<Int>) -> SubSequence {
        let startIndex = index(self.startIndex, offsetBy: range.lowerBound)
        return self[startIndex..<index(startIndex, offsetBy: range.count)]
    }
    subscript(range: ClosedRange<Int>) -> SubSequence {
        let startIndex = index(self.startIndex, offsetBy: range.lowerBound)
        return self[startIndex..<index(startIndex, offsetBy: range.count)]
    }
    subscript(range: PartialRangeFrom<Int>) -> SubSequence { self[index(startIndex, offsetBy: range.lowerBound)...] }
    subscript(range: PartialRangeThrough<Int>) -> SubSequence { self[...index(startIndex, offsetBy: range.upperBound)] }
    subscript(range: PartialRangeUpTo<Int>) -> SubSequence { self[..<index(startIndex, offsetBy: range.upperBound)] }
}

当你想要删除所有类型的空白时(基于这个SO答案)的正确方法是:

extension String {
    var stringByRemovingWhitespaces: String {
        let components = componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet(.whitespaceCharacterSet())
        return components.joinWithSeparator("")
    }
}

Swift 3.0+ (3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0)

extension String {
    func removingWhitespaces() -> String {
        return components(separatedBy: .whitespaces).joined()
    }
}

EDIT

这个答案是在问题是关于删除所有空白时发布的，问题被编辑为只提到前导空白。如果你只想删除前导空白，请使用以下方法:

extension String {
    func removingLeadingSpaces() -> String {
        guard let index = firstIndex(where: { !CharacterSet(charactersIn: String($0)).isSubset(of: .whitespaces) }) else {
            return self
        }
        return String(self[index...])
    }
}

羽毛球猫的答案的Swift 3版本

extension String {
    func replace(_ string:String, replacement:String) -> String {
        return self.replacingOccurrences(of: string, with: replacement, options: NSString.CompareOptions.literal, range: nil)
    }

    func removeWhitespace() -> String {
        return self.replace(" ", replacement: "")
    }
}

class SpaceRemover
{
    func SpaceRemover(str :String)->String
    {
        var array = Array(str)
        var i = array.count
        while(array.last == " ")
        {
            var array1 = [Character]()
            for item in  0...i - 1
            {
                array1.append(array[item])
            }
            i = i - 1
            array = array1
            print(array1)
            print(array)

        }

        var arraySecond = array
        var j = arraySecond.count

        while(arraySecond.first == " ")
        {
            var array2 = [Character]()
            if j > 1
            {
                for item in 1..<j
                {
                    array2.append(arraySecond[item])
                }
            }
            j = j - 1
            arraySecond = array2
            print(array2)
            print(arraySecond)

        }
        print(arraySecond)
        return String(arraySecond)
    }
}

string = string.filter ({!" ".contains($0) })

在Swift 4修剪空白

let strFirstName = txtFirstName.text?.trimmingCharacters(in: 
 CharacterSet.whitespaces)