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Javascript Trim

09.13.2007

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// Removes leading and ending whitespaces, nbsps
function trim(str) {
    return str.replace(/(^[\s\xA0]+|[\s\xA0]+$)/g, '');
}

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javascript
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replace
String
trim
whitespaces

Comments

Steven Levithan replied on Wed, 2008/01/30 - 1:58am

According to ECMA-262v3, the \x0a (no-break space) character is included in \s. Also, the parens are unnecessary here. See this post for a comparison of a variety of JS trim functions: trim javascript.