»trimspace Function

trimspace removes any space characters from the start and end of the given string.

This function follows the Unicode definition of "space", which includes regular spaces, tabs, newline characters, and various other space-like characters.

Examples

> trimspace("  hello\n\n")
hello

> trimspace("  hello\n\n")
hello

Related Functions

• chomp removes just line ending characters from the end of a string.