Removes leading and trailing spaces from a string.
Trim ( string )
Argument |
Description |
|---|---|
string |
The string you want returned with leading and trailing spaces deleted |
String. Returns a copy of string with all leading and trailing spaces deleted if it succeeds and the empty string (“”) if an error occurs. If string is null, Trim returns null.
Trim is useful for removing spaces that a user may have typed before or after newly entered data.
This statement returns BABE RUTH:
Trim(" BABE RUTH ")
This example removes the leading and trailing spaces from the user-entered value in the SingleLineEdit sle_emp_fname and saves the value in emp_fname:
string emp_fname
emp_fname = Trim(sle_emp_fname.Text)
