1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************************** 5 * 6 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7 * 8 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9 * 10 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11 * 12 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13 * 14 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17 * 18 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23 * 24 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28 * 29 ************************************************************************--> 30 31<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32<meta> 33<topic id="textsbasicshared03120311xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Trim Function [Runtime]</title> 35<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120311.xhp</filename> 36</topic> 37<history> 38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39<lastedited date="2005-01-03T15:50:32">converted from old format - fpe 40dedr: fixed #i30791#</lastedited> 41</history> 42</meta> 43<body> 44<section id="trim"> 45<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150616"><bookmark_value>Trim function</bookmark_value> 46</bookmark> 47<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150616" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120311.xhp" name="Trim Function [Runtime]">Trim Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149177" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Removes all leading and trailing spaces from a string expression.</paragraph> 49</section> 50<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159157" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155341" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Trim( Text As String )</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155388" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143228" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">String</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145609" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159414" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 56<emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression.</paragraph> 57<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 58<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 59<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148663" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150398" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Sub ExampleSpaces</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153525" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Dim sText2 as String,sText as String,sOut as String</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154908" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">sText2 = " <*Las Vegas*> "</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3144760" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">sOut = "'"+sText2 +"'"+ Chr(13)</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151383" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="16">sText = Ltrim(sText2) REM sText = "<*Las Vegas*> "</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151044" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">sOut = sOut + "'"+sText +"'" + Chr(13)</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159149" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="18">sText = Rtrim(sText2) REM sText = " <*Las Vegas*>"</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150449" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">sOut = sOut +"'"+ sText +"'" + Chr(13)</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149562" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="20">sText = Trim(sText2) REM sText = "<*Las Vegas*>"</paragraph> 69<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161831" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">sOut = sOut +"'"+ sText +"'"</paragraph> 70<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146120" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">MsgBox sOut</paragraph> 71<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145364" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">end sub</paragraph> 72</body> 73</helpdocument> 74