Questions tagged [trim]

Trimming is the process of adjusting a text string by eliminating any excess leading or trailing spaces, as well as ASCII control characters, and can also involve removing a particular character if desired.

Unexpected outcome when applying rtrim to DOCUMENT_ROOT

Is there a way to eliminate any trailing slashes from the DOCUMENT_ROOT? rtrim($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], '/\\') Unfortunately, after using rtrim, it is adding %5C: E:%5Cwamp%5Cwww%5Ctestfolder I even tried replacing all s ...

Keep only the PHP characters intact while replacing all others in the given string

I need help with extracting the year 1988 from a string that says "Trade Card Catalogue 1988 Edition". Is there a more efficient solution instead of using an array, str_replace, and trim? $string = 'Trade Card Catalogue 1988 Edition'; $letters = array('a' ...

Remove any unnecessary characters from the beginning of the string and keep track of the total number of spaces removed

How can I determine the number of characters that have been removed from the beginning of a string? This string is retrieved from a textarea input, and knowing this information will help me calculate the new position of the cursor selection. While $.trim( ...

Overflow: Truncating text with an ellipsis in the center

Seeking a CSS-only solution for adding an ellipsis in the middle of a string when it exceeds its container. I have tried splitting the container in half, trimming the first half with a wrapper on a whole letter and adding an ellipsis to the front of the s ...

TypeScript equivalent to Python's method for removing non-whitespace characters is achieved by

I understand that I can utilize .trim() to eliminate trailing spaces Is there a method to trim non-space characters instead? In [1]: str = 'abc/def/ghi/' In [2]: s.strip('/') Out[2]: 'abc/def/ghi' I am referring to the functionality similar to Python's s ...

Reduce string to designated character

There are strings in the data frame that appear as 'Temp (°C)', 'Dew Point Temp (°C)', 'Rel Hum (%)', and 'Wind Dir (10s deg)’. I want to extract only 'Temp', 'Dow Point Temp', 'Rel Hum&a ...