Trimming refers to the manipulation of a text string to remove leading and/or trailing whitespace (and/or ASCII control characters).
Questions tagged [trim]
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JavaScript chop/slice/trim off last character in string
I have a string, 12345.00, and I would like it to return 12345.0.
I have looked at trim, but it looks like it is only trimming whitespace and slice which I don't see how this would work. Any suggestions?
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Trim string in JavaScript?
How do I trim a string in JavaScript? That is, how do I remove all whitespace from the beginning and the end of the string in JavaScript?
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How do I trim whitespace from a string?
How do I remove leading and trailing whitespace from a string in Python?
For example:
" Hello " --> "Hello"
" Hello" --> "Hello"
"Hello " --> "Hello"
"Bob has a cat" --> "Bob has a cat"
robert
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How do I trim whitespace?
Is there a Python function that will trim whitespace (spaces and tabs) from a string?
Example: \t example string\t → example string
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How to trim whitespace from a Bash variable?
I have a shell script with this code:
var=`hg st -R "$path"`
if [ -n "$var" ]; then
echo $var
fi
But the conditional code always executes, because hg st always prints at least one newline character.
Is there a simple way to strip whitespace…
too much php
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Remove all whitespace in a string
I want to eliminate all the whitespace from a string, on both ends, and in between words.
I have this Python code:
def my_handle(self):
sentence = ' hello apple '
sentence.strip()
But that only eliminates the whitespace on both sides of…
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What's the best way to trim std::string?
I'm currently using the following code to right-trim all the std::strings in my programs:
std::string s;
s.erase(s.find_last_not_of(" \n\r\t")+1);
It works fine, but I wonder if there are some end-cases where it might fail?
Of course, answers with…
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.trim() in JavaScript not working in IE
I tried to apply .trim() to a string in one of my JavaScript programs. It's working fine under Mozilla, but an error displays when I try it in IE8. Does anyone know what is going on here? Is there anyway I can make it work in IE?
code:
var ID =…
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Does swift have a trim method on String?
Does swift have a trim method on String? For example:
let result = " abc ".trim()
// result == "abc"
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How can I trim leading and trailing white space?
I am having some troubles with leading and trailing white space in a data.frame.
For example, I like to take a look at a specific row in a data.frame based on a certain condition:
> myDummy[myDummy$country == c("Austria"),c(1,2,3:7,19)]
[1]…
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Trim spaces from end of a NSString
I need to remove spaces from the end of a string. How can I do that?
Example: if string is "Hello " it must become "Hello"
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How to remove the leading character from a string?
I have a input string like:
$str = ':this is a applepie :) ';
How can I remove the first occurring : with PHP?
Desired output: this is a applepie :)
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Remove all spaces from a string in SQL Server
What is the best way to remove all spaces from a string in SQL Server 2008?
LTRIM(RTRIM(' a b ')) would remove all spaces at the right and left of the string, but I also need to remove the space in the middle.
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Fastest way to remove first char in a String
Say we have the following string
string data= "/temp string";
If we want to remove the first character / we can do by a lot of ways such as :
data.Remove(0,1);
data.TrimStart('/');
data.Substring(1);
But, really I don't know which one has the…
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How to remove all white space from the beginning or end of a string?
How can I remove all white space from the beginning and end of a string?
Like so:
"hello" returns "hello"
"hello " returns "hello"
" hello " returns "hello"
" hello world " returns "hello world"
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