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letosword on 09/17/09

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Trim function

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String prototype.trim = function() {
    a = this.replace(/^\s+/, '');
    return a.replace(/\s+$/, '');
};

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Posted By: iroybot on September 17, 2009: just a matter of taste, but I like jQuery.trim('string'); but that might have something to do with laziness ;)
Posted By: iroybot on September 17, 2009: PS: you might want to check out PHPJS.org's version which takes a lot of UTF-8 derivatives of the whitespaces character, which makes it more failsafe ( http://phpjs.org/functions/trim )

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