Trim (str)

Basic and Crystal syntax.

Arguments

str is a text string to be trimmed.

Returns

Text String

Action

The Trim function removes leading and trailing spaces from string arguments.

Typical uses

Use this function any time there are leading and/or trailing blanks in a text object that may interfere with an alignment of text strings, a character count, or with a calculation (if the string is eventually converted to a Number).

Examples

The following examples are applicable to both Basic and Crystal syntax:

Trim("   abcde   ")

Returns "abcde".

Comments

This function is designed to work like the Visual Basic function of the same name.



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