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stripblanks

strips / trims leading or trailing or both blanks (and tabs) of strings

Syntax

Txtout = stripblanks(Txt)
Txtout = stripblanks(Txt, notabs)
Txtout = stripblanks(Txt, notabs, trimloc)

Arguments

Txt, Txtout

Texts or matrices of texts, with size(Txtout)==size(Txt).

notabs

a boolean, if %t then tabs are also stripped (default value is %f).

trimloc

an argument which, if trimloc = -1 remove only leading spaces, if trimloc = 1 remove only trailing spaces. default value is 0, which trims both the leading and trailing spaces.

Description

The stripblanks function strips / trims leading or trailing or both blanks (and tabs) of strings.

Examples

a='  123   ';
'!'+a+'!'
'!'+stripblanks(a)+'!'
a=['  123   ',' xyz']
stripblanks(a)

a = msprintf("\t  \tHello world!\t\t")
stripblanks(a,%f)
stripblanks(a,%t)

a = '    hello    ';
'|'+a+'|'
'|'+stripblanks(a,%t,-1)+'|'
'|'+stripblanks(a,%t,0)+'|'
'|'+stripblanks(a,%t,1)+'|'

History

VersionDescription
6.0 New input trimloc added to remove trailing, leading or both spaces.
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