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ALLTRIM()
Remove leading and trailing spaces from a character string
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Syntax
ALLTRIM(<cString>) --> cTrimString
Arguments
<cString> is the character expression to be trimmed.
Returns
ALLTRIM() returns a character string with leading and trailing spaces
removed.
Description
ALLTRIM() is a character function that removes both leading and trailing
spaces from a string. It is related to LTRIM() and RTRIM() which remove
leading and trailing spaces, respectively. The inverse of ALLTRIM(),
LTRIM(), and RTRIM() are the PADC(), PADL(), and PADR() functions which
center, left-justify, or right-justify character strings by padding them
with fill characters.
Notes
. Space characters: The ALLTRIM() function treats carriage
returns, line feeds, and tabs as space characters and removes these
as well.
Examples
. This example creates a string with both leading and trailing
spaces, and then trims them with ALLTRIM():
cString := SPACE(10) + "string" + SPACE(10)
? LEN(cString) // Result: 26
? LEN(ALLTRIM(cString)) // Result: 6
Files Library is EXTEND.LIB.
See Also:
LTRIM()
PAD()
RTRIM()
TRIM()
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