stripblanks
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Strips / trims leading and trailing blanks (and tabs) of strings



Calling Sequence
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::

    txt=stripblanks(txt[,tabs])




Arguments
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:txt A character string or matrix of character strings
: :tabs if TRUE then tabs are also stripped (default value is FALSE)
:



Description
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stripblanks strips / trims leading and trailing blanks (and tabs) of
strings



Examples
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::

    a='  123   ';
    '!'+a+'!'
    '!'+stripblanks(a)+'!'
    a=['  123   ',' xyz']
    `strcat`_(stripblanks(a))