strip/2—strip leading and trailing blank spaces from a  string


Use the strip/2 function to remove the beginning and ending blank spaces from $STR and copy the resulting string into $NEWSTR.

$NEWSTR=strip($STR)

strip/2 arguments

Argument

Mode

Type

Description

$STR

Input

STRING

Specifies the base string from which blank spaces at the beginning and end of the string are to be removed

$NEWSTR

Output

STRING

Resulting string after the blank spaces have been removed

strip/2 example

$MSG = strip($E.msg);

 

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