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splorp on 01/25/07


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Trim Leading & Trailing Whitespace

Published in: JavaScript 

Trims leading and trailing spaces from a string value and returns the result as a new string.


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  1. function trimWhitespace(value) {
  2.     var result = value.match(/^\s*(.*\S)\s*$/);
  3.     if (result !== null && result.length === 2)
  4.         return result[1];
  5.     else
  6.         return value;
  7. };

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