To remove leading spaces

PROCEDURE DIVISION.

MOVE 0 TO LEAD-SPACE-VAR.
MOVE 0 TO TEMP-VAR.
INSPECT VAR1 TALLYING LEAD-SPACE-VAR FOR LEADING SPACES.
COMPUTE TEMP-VAR = LENGTH OF VAR1 - LEAD-SPACE-VAR.

ADD 1 TO LEAD-SPACE-VAR
STRING VAR-FRONT DELIMITED BY SIZE
               VAR1(LEAD-SPACE-VAR:TEMP-VAR) DELIMITED BY SIZE
               INTO RECORD-VAL.
PERFORM WRITE-PARA.