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How to trim spaces inside data values


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Hi there,

I'd like to do pretty much the same function Trim does in excel. Remove any extra spaces inside the data including trailing or leading spaces. I saw someone posted this is possible with "regular expressions"?

I can see in the guide book there is left, right or both trim, but not sure how I would go about making a regular expression for removing both and any extra spaces in the data itself.

Thanks much for any help!

 

Cheers,

Mike

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  • 5 months later...

The way I read your question is that you want to remove all leading and trailing spaces and then two or more spaces from inside your string. I'd think the following would do what you'd like.

function trimAll(x) {

x = x.replace(/^\s*|\s*$/g, "");

x = x.replace(/\s+/g, " ");

return x;

}

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