Street Skater Project: Long Beach

def removefirstcharacter(inputstring: str) -> str:
"""
Removes the first character from a given string.
Args:
inputstring: The string from which the first character should be removed.
Returns:
A new string with the first character removed.
Returns an empty string if the inputstring is empty.
"""
if not inputstring:
return ""
return input_string[1:]

print(removefirstcharacter("hello"))
print(removefirstcharacter("world"))
print(removefirstcharacter("a"))
print(removefirstcharacter(""))
```