Trim field's preceeding blank spaces in select statement

Dear Gurus,
I have a select query like this.
DATA : znormt TYPE NORMT.
select normt into znormt from mara where normt EQ Mymatnr.
Mymatnr is coming from one of the Z table and the field contains 3 preceding spaces. Can you please tell me how I can trim the spaces in the select statement to get the result. I am looking for something like this.
select normt into znormt from mara where normt EQ ltrim(rtrim(Mymatnr)).
Appreciate your inputs.
Thanks!
Surya.

Run it through FM CONVERSION_EXIT_MATN1_OUTPUT thusly:
CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERSION_EXIT_MATN1_OUTPUT'
EXPORTING
input = mymatnr
IMPORTING
output = mymatnr.
SELECT normt
INTO znormt
FROM mara
WHERE normt EQ mymatnr.
Rob

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