| trim |
(String str [, String left [, String right]]) |
yoix.string |
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Returns a new string that is a copy of
str,
but that has all characters contained in
left
removed from the left end and all characters contained in
right
removed from the right end.
When
right
is omitted
left
is applied to both ends of the string.
When
left
and
right
are omitted whitespace,
in this case any character less than or equal to the space character,
is removed from from both ends of
str.
A
NULL
value for
left
or
right
means make no changes to the appropriate end of
str.
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| Example: |
The program,
import yoix.stdio.*;
import yoix.string.*;
String s1 = " \001\002\003 XXXyyy yyyXXX \005\006\007 ";
String s2 = "XYZZYnow is the timeXYZZY";
printf("|%S|\n", trim(s1));
printf("|%S|\n", trim(s2, "XYZ"));
printf("|%S|\n", trim(s2, "XYZ", NULL));
printf("|%S|\n", trim(s2, NULL, "XYZ"));
prints
|XXXyyy yyyXXX|
|now is the time|
|now is the timeXYZZY|
|XYZZYnow is the time|
on standard output.
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| Return: |
String
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| See Also: |
substring
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