String.trim Last updated: 13. Nov 2023

Removes spaces before and after a text in a string.

Parameters

This function takes no parameters

Returns

A "trimmed" string, where leading and ending spaces have been removed. Does not change the initial string object but returns a modified string.

Example

Code example (#JS)

#JS is mixed HTML (or other text file) with inline JavaScript with # starting and ending each inline statement.

#{
    /* Declare a text to trim */
    var text = "     hello     ";
    
    /* Remove leading and ending spaces */
    text = text.trim();
    
    /* Output contents of text variable */
    if(text == "hello") write("OK!");
}#

Output

The #JS code above produces the output shown below:

OK!