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33<topic id="textsbasicshared03120311xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Trim Function [Runtime]</title>
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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>
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44<section id="trim">
45<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150616"><bookmark_value>Trim function</bookmark_value>
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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>
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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 = " &lt;*Las Vegas*&gt; "</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 = "&lt;*Las Vegas*&gt; "</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 = " &lt;*Las Vegas*&gt;"</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 = "&lt;*Las Vegas*&gt;"</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>
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