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Trim

Removes leading and trailing spaces from a string.

A copy of string, after removing leading and trailing spaces.

String functions

Trim(string)

LTrim, RTrim

Parameter

Description

string

A string or a variable that contains one

 

<h3>Trim Example</h3>
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.myText")>
   <cfoutput>
      <pre>
         Your string:   "#FORM.myText#"
         Your string:   "#Trim(FORM.myText)#"
         (trimmed on both sides)
      </pre>
   </cfoutput>
</cfif>
<form action = "trim.cfm">
<p>Type in some text, and it will be modified by trim to remove leading 
spaces from the left and right
<p><input type = "Text" name = "myText" value = "   TEST   ">
<p><input type = "Submit" name = "">
</form>
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