leading and trailing spaces: trim

[ArielRauch]

Hi,
I somehow forgot how to trim a string.
str.trim() does not work.

Thank you in advanced,

Ariel

[loicaigon]

Hi,

No trim function in Switch Javascript Object Model but it's pretty easy to get this result with a replace call:

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var str = "      foo        "; 
">"+str.replace(/(^[\s\uFEFF\xA0]+|[\s\uFEFF\xA0]+$)/g, "" )+"<" //>foo<

HTH
Loic

[gabrielp]

No trim function in Switch Javascript Object Model but it's pretty easy to get this result with a replace call:

Thanks for sharing this. That is very helpful.

[ArielRauch]

I agree with Gabriel - very helpful.

Thank you very much

Ariel

[loicaigon]

My pleasure. Be aware though that it will only remove trailing and leading "spaces". Something like "hey you" won't be considered with previous regular expression but I was sticking to the idea of trimming the string.
For the ones looking for a more global replacement like " he llo " to "hello", you may prefer to use :

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str.replace (/[\s\uFEFF\xA0]+/g, "")

[andrea mahoney]

You can use a Switch Variable to do this with norm or trim from the Variable options:

job.getVariableAsString("[Job.NameProper:Space=\"norm\"]");