Trim (String str)

Name

Trim

Applicable To (DataType)

String

Purpose

To remove any leading or trailing whitespaces.

Description

Removes any leading and trailing white spaces from the string argument. Whitespaces also include space, new line, tab, and linefeed characters.

Return Type

String

Syntax

str [System.String] – string which will be trimmed.

properties

Example

In this example, we have order details of customers residing in an Excel file. We want all the columns to be free of white spaces so that the data is more cleansed, presentable, and ready for further processing.

1-data-preview

Map the CompanyName to the str data field under the Input node inside the function transformation object.

dataflow

You can see that all the leading and trailing spaces have been removed from the data field.

4-final-output

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