Strips / trims leading and trailing blanks (and tabs) of strings
txt=stripblanks(txt[,tabs])
:txt A character string or matrix of character strings : :tabs if TRUE then tabs are also stripped (default value is FALSE) :
stripblanks strips / trims leading and trailing blanks (and tabs) of strings
a=' 123 ';
'!'+a+'!'
'!'+stripblanks(a)+'!'
a=[' 123 ',' xyz']
`strcat`_(stripblanks(a))