Trimming refers to the manipulation of a text string to remove leading and/or trailing whitespace (and/or ASCII control characters), or (optionally) a specified character.
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How do I remove leading whitespace in Python?
I have a text string that starts with a number of spaces, varying between 2 & 4.
What is the simplest way to remove the leading whitespace? (ie. remove everything before a certain character?)
" Example" -> "Example"
" Example " -> "Example "
"…
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Trim specific character from a string
What's the JavaScript equivalent to this C# Method:
var x = "|f|oo||";
var y = x.Trim('|'); // "f|oo"
C# trims the selected character only at the beginning and end of the string!
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Explode string on commas and trim potential spaces from each value
For example, I would like to create an array from the elements in this string:
$str = 'red, green, blue ,orange';
I know you can explode and loop through them and trim:
$arr = explode(',', $str);
foreach ($arr as $value) {
$new_arr[] =…
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Replace multiple whitespaces with single whitespace in JavaScript string
I have strings with extra whitespace characters. Each time there's more than one whitespace, I'd like it be only one. How can I do this using JavaScript?
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String strip() for JavaScript?
How do I strip leading and trailing spaces from a string?
For example, " dog " should become "dog".
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Difference between String trim() and strip() methods in Java 11
Among other changes, JDK 11 introduces 6 new methods for java.lang.String class:
repeat(int) - Repeats the String as many times as provided by the int parameter
lines() - Uses a Spliterator to lazily provide lines from the source string
isBlank() -…
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How do I trim leading/trailing whitespace in a standard way?
Is there a clean, preferably standard method of trimming leading and trailing whitespace from a string in C? I'd roll my own, but I would think this is a common problem with an equally common solution.
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How can I trim all strings in an Array?
If I have this array:
array(" hey ", "bla ", " test");
and I want to trim all of them, How can I do that?
The array after the trim:
array("hey", "bla", "test");
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Remove whitespaces inside a string in javascript
I've read this question about javascript trim, with a regex answer.
Then I expect trim to remove the inner space between Hello and World.
function myFunction() {
alert("Hello World ".trim());
}
EDITED
Why I expected that!?
Nonsense!…
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How can I trim beginning and ending double quotes from a string?
I would like to trim a beginning and ending double quote (") from a string.
How can I achieve that in Java? Thanks!
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Replace all whitespace characters
I want to replace all occurrences of white space characters (space, tab, newline) in JavaScript.
How to do so?
I tried:
str.replace(/ /gi, "X")
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How can I split and trim a string into parts all on one line?
I want to split this line:
string line = "First Name ; string ; firstName";
into an array of their trimmed versions:
"First Name"
"string"
"firstName"
How can I do this all on one line? The following gives me an error "cannot convert type…
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Strip / trim all strings of a dataframe
Cleaning the values of a multitype data frame in python/pandas, I want to trim the strings. I am currently doing it in two instructions :
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame([[' a ', 10], [' c ', 5]])
df.replace('^\s+', '', regex=True,…
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Trim trailing spaces in Xcode
Is there a way to force Xcode to trim trailing whitespaces when I save file?
I'm using version 3.1.3 if that matters.
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How many spaces will Java String.trim() remove?
In Java, I have a String like this:
" content ".
Will String.trim() remove all spaces on these sides or just one space on each?
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