trim

 

 

Overview

The trim function removes any leading or trailing spaces from a String or Text, and removes extra spaces from a Text or String, leaving one space separating each word.

Usage

The trim function is used to remove excess spaces from a String or Text.

 

Syntax

Expression:

(trim string)

(trim text)

Arguments Name Type Description
Argument:stringString or Text Any String or Text or cell or cell reference that evaluates to a String or Text for which you want to trim extra spaces.

Returns:

The result string after trimming


 

Examples

Here are a number of links to Lambda coding examples which contain this instruction in various use cases.

 

Argument Types

Here are the links to the data types of the function arguments.

String Text

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