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Trimming Spaces

The TRIM, LTRIM, and RTRIM directives trim whitespace from both sides, left side or right side of a string values they are applied to.

Syntax

trim <column>
ltrim <column>
rtrim <column>

The directive performs an in-place trimming of space in the value specified by the <column>

Usage

The trim directives honors UNICODE space characters. Following are the characters that are recognized as spaces by TRIM, LTRIM and RTRIM.

Character Description
\t Character tabulation
\n Line Feed (LF)
\u000B Line Tabulation
\f Form Feed (FF)
\r Carriage Return (CR)
" " Space
\u0085 Next line (NEL)
\u00A0 No Break Space
\u1680 OGHAM Space Mark
\u180E Mongolian Vowel Separator
\u2000 EN Quad
\u2001 EM Quad
\u2002 EN Space
\u2003 EM Space
\u2004 Three Per EM space
\u2005 Four Per EM space
\u2006 Six Per EM space
\u2007 Figure Space
\u2008 Puncatuation Space
\u2009 Thin Space
\u200A Hair Space
\u2028 Line Separator
\u2029 Paragraph Separator
\u202F Narrow No-Break Space
\u205F Medium Mathematical Space
\u3000 Ideographic Space

Example

Using this record as an example:

{
  "id": 1,
  "gender": "    male    ",
  "fname": "    Root    ",
  "lname": "   JOLTIE   ",
  "address": "    67 MARS AVE, MARSCIty, Marsville, Mars"
}

Applying these directives

trim gender
ltrim fname
rtrim lname
ltrim address

would result in this record:

{
  "id": 1,
  "gender": "male",
  "fname": "Root    ",
  "lname": "   JOLTIE",
  "address": "67 MARS AVE, MARSCIty, Marsville, Mars"
}