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/*
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LTrim(string) : Returns a copy of a string without leading spaces.
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*/
function LTrim(str)
/*
PURPOSE: Remove leading blanks from our string.
IN: str - the string we want to LTrim
*/
{
var whitespace = new String(" \t\n\r");
var s = new String(str);
if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(0)) != -1) {
// We have a string with leading blank(s)...
var j=0, i = s.length;
// Iterate from the far left of string until we
// don't have any more whitespace...
while (j < i && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(j)) != -1)
j++;
// Get the substring from the first non-whitespace
// character to the end of the string...
s = s.substring(j, i);
}
return s;
}
/*
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RTrim(string) : Returns a copy of a string without trailing spaces.
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*/
function RTrim(str)
/*
PURPOSE: Remove trailing blanks from our string.
IN: str - the string we want to RTrim
*/
{
// We don't want to trip JUST spaces, but also tabs,
// line feeds, etc. Add anything else you want to
// "trim" here in Whitespace
var whitespace = new String(" \t\n\r");
var s = new String(str);
if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(s.length-1)) != -1) {
// We have a string with trailing blank(s)...
var i = s.length - 1; // Get length of string
// Iterate from the far right of string until we
// don't have any more whitespace...
while (i >= 0 && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(i)) != -1)
i--;
// Get the substring from the front of the string to
// where the last non-whitespace character is...
s = s.substring(0, i+1);
}
return s;
}
/*
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Trim(string) : Returns a copy of a string without leading or trailing spaces
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*/
function Trim(str)
/*
PURPOSE: Remove trailing and leading blanks from our string.
IN: str - the string we want to Trim
RETVAL: A Trimmed string!
*/
{
return RTrim(LTrim(str));
}