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The strings.trimSpace() function removes leading and trailing spaces from a string.

Output data type: String

import "strings"

strings.trimSpace(v: "  abc  ")

// returns "abc"

Parameters

v

String to remove spaces from.

Data type: String

Examples

Trim leading and trailing spaces from all values in a column

import "strings"

data
  |> map(fn: (r) => ({ r with userInput: strings.trimSpace(v: r.userInput) }))