STRTRIM

Purpose:

Skips leading and/or trailing whitespace of a string.

STRCAT("str", mode, trimchars)

"str"

A string. The input string to process.

mode

Optional. An integer, the trim mode.

0:	trim trailing characters
1:	trim leading characters (default)
2:	trim both leading and trailing characters

"tricmchars"

Optional. A string, the characters to trim. Defaults to spaces, tabs and newlines.

A string where the leading whitespace has been eliminated.

strtrim(" aaa bbb")

results in the string: "aaa bbb".

str1 = " " + strescape("\t") + "text";

str2 = strtrim(str1)

str2 == "text"

strtrim(" aaa bbb ", 0)

Returns the string " aaa bbb".

strtrim(" aaa bbb ", 2)

Returns the string "aaa bbb".

strtrim("xyzaaa bbbxyxy", 2, "xyz")

Returns the string "aaa bbb".

STRTRIM removes leading whitespace from a string, including spaces, strchar(32), tabs, strchar(9) and newlines strescape("\n").