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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Remove last specific character in a string c#
I use WinForms c#.I have string value like below,
string Something = "1,5,12,34,";
I need to remove last comma in a string. So How can i delete it ?
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IE8 and JQuery's trim()
I am making use of trim() like so:
if($('#group_field').val().trim()!=''){
Where group_field is an input element of type text. This works in Firefox but when I try it on IE8 it gives me this error:
Message: Object doesn't support this property or…
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How to delete specific characters from a string in Ruby?
I have several strings that look like this:
"((String1))"
They are all different lengths. How could I remove the parentheses from all these strings in a loop?
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How to remove new line characters from data rows in mysql?
I can loop through all of the rows in a php script and do
UPDATE mytable SET title = "'.trim($row['title']).'" where id = "'.$row['id'].'";
and trim can remove \n
But I was just wondering if something same could be done in one query?
update…
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Javascript - Apply trim function to each string in an array
Want to trim each string in an array, e.g., given
x = [' aa ', ' bb '];
output
['aa', 'bb']
My first trial is
x.map(String.prototype.trim.apply)
It got "TypeError: Function.prototype.apply was called on undefined, which is a undefined and not a…
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How to extend C# built-in types, like String?
I need to Trim a String. But I want to remove all the repeated blank spaces within the String itself, not only at the end or at the start of it. I could do it with a method like:
public static string ConvertWhitespacesToSingleSpaces(string value)
{
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Removing spaces from string
I'm trying to remove all the spaces from a string derived from user input, but for some reason it isn't working for me. Here is my code.
public void onClick(View src) {
switch (src.getId()) {
case R.id.buttonGo:
String input…
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How to Select a substring in Oracle SQL up to a specific character?
Say I have a table column that has results like:
ABC_blahblahblah
DEFGH_moreblahblahblah
IJKLMNOP_moremoremoremore
I would like to be able to write a query that selects this column from said table, but only returns the substring up to the…
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Trim characters in Java
How can I trim characters in Java?
e.g.
String j = “\joe\jill\”.Trim(new char[] {“\”});
j should be
"joe\jill"
String j = “jack\joe\jill\”.Trim("jack");
j should be
"\joe\jill\"
etc
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trim all strings in an array
I have a string that comes in like:
string email = "a@a.com, b@b.com, c@c.com";
I want to split it into an array of strings
If I do this:
string[] emails = email.Split(',');
I get spaces in front of each email address (after the first…
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How to remove the extra spaces in a string?
What function will turn this contains spaces into this contains spaces using javascript?
I've tried the following, using similar SO questions, but could not get this to work.
var string = " this contains spaces ";
newString =…
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Trim to remove white space
jQuery trim not working. I wrote the following command to remove white space. Whats wrong in it?
var str = $('input').val();
str = jquery.trim(str);
console.log(str);
Fiddle example.
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How to remove whitespace from a string in typescript?
In my angular 5 project, with typescript I am using the .trim() function on a string like this, But it is not removing the whitespace and also not giving any error.
this.maintabinfo = this.inner_view_data.trim().toLowerCase();
// inner_view_data…
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Trim leading or trailing characters from a string?
How can I trim the leading or trailing characters from a string in java?
For example, the slash character "/" - I'm not interested in spaces, and am looking to trim either leading or trailing characters at different times.
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Perform Trim() while using Split()
today I was wondering if there is a better solution perform the following code sample.
string keyword = " abc, foo , bar";
string match = "foo";
string[] split= keyword.Split(new char[] { ',', ';' },…
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