Trim

Removes surrounding substrings or characters on the left and right side of a string

Syntax

Declare Function Trim Overload ( ByRef str As Const String, [ Any ] ByRef trimset As Const String = " " ) As String Declare Function Trim ( ByRef str As Const WString, [ Any ] ByRef trimset As Const WString = WStr(" ") ) As WString

Usage

result = Trim[$]( str [, [ Any ] trimset ] )

Parameters

str

The source string.

trimset

The substring to trim.

Return Value

Returns the trimmed string.

Description

This procedure trims surrounding characters from the left (beginning) and right (end) of a source string. Substrings matching trimset will be trimmed if specified, otherwise spaces (ASCII code 32) are trimmed.

If the Any keyword is used, any character matching a character in trimset will be trimmed.

All comparisons are case-sensitive.

Example

Dim s1 As String = " ... Stuck in the middle ... " Print "'" + Trim(s1) + "'" Print "'" + Trim(s1, Any " .") + "'" Dim s2 As String = "BaaBaaaaB With You aaBBaaBaa" Print "'" + Trim(s2, "Baa") + "'" Print "'" + Trim(s2, Any "Ba") + "'"
will produce the output:

'... Stuck in the middle ...'
'Stuck in the middle'
'aaB With You aaB'
' With You '

Platform Differences

DOS version/target of FreeBASIC does not support the wide-character version of Trim.

Dialect Differences

Not available in the -lang qb dialect unless referenced with the alias __Trim.
The string type suffix "$" is optional in the -lang fblite and -lang fb dialects.

Differences from QB

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