--- page_title: trimprefix - Functions - Configuration Language description: |- The trimprefix function removes the specified prefix from the start of a given string. --- # `trimprefix` Function `trimprefix` removes the specified prefix from the start of the given string. ## Examples ```shell-session > trimprefix("helloworld", "hello") world ``` ## Related Functions - [`trim`](/docs/templates/hcl_templates/functions/string/trim) removes characters at the start and end of a string. - [`trimsuffix`](/docs/templates/hcl_templates/functions/string/trimsuffix) removes a word from the end of a string. - [`trimspace`](/docs/templates/hcl_templates/functions/string/trimspace) removes all types of whitespace from both the start and the end of a string.