base.StringBuffer.trim

Remove leading and trailing blank space (ASCII 32) characters.

Syntax

trim()

Usage

The trim() method removes the leading and trailing blank space characters in the string buffer.

Note: The method removes only blank space (ASCII(32)) characters. Characters tab (\t), newline (\n), carriage-return (\r) and form-feed (\f) are not removed.

Example

MAIN
   DEFINE buf base.StringBuffer
   LET buf = base.StringBuffer.create()
   CALL buf.append("  abc  ")
   CALL buf.trim()
   DISPLAY "["||buf.toString()||"]" -- Shows [abc]
END MAIN

Output:

[abc]