trim

Summary

Strips whitespace from beginning and/or end of a string.

Usage

$input_string|trim( [char_list] )

Parameters

NameTypeDescriptionRequired
char_list string list of characters to remove no

Returns

trimmed version of input string.

Description

The trim operator can be used to remove any unwanted whitespace from the beginning and/or the end of a string. Trim will get rid of the following characters:

" "   (ASCII 32 (0x20)) - an ordinary space. 

"\t"  (ASCII 9 (0x09)) - a tab. 

"\n"  (ASCII 10 (0x0A)) - a new line (line feed). 

"\r"  (ASCII 13 (0x0D)) - a carriage return. 

"\0"  (ASCII 0 (0x00)) - the NUL-byte. 

"\x0B" (ASCII 11 (0x0B)) - a vertical tab. 

Examples

{"   Gizmo is not a gremlin. "|trim}

returns the string "Gizmo is not a gremlin."

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Created

05/02/2004
12:00:28 pm
by Balazs Halasy

Last updated

18/02/2004
3:25:25 pm
by Derick Rethans

Authors

Balazs Halasy
Derick Rethans



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