What is the objectscript function to trim a string?

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Yuri Marx · Nov 29, 2021

If a have a string " Happy new year " and I want to trim (remove blank spaces from the begin and the end, not other places into the string), what is the object script function to get "Happy new year"?

Product version: IRIS 2021.1

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David Hockenbroch · Nov 29, 2021

You can use $ZSTRIP for this, in your case:

$ZSTRIP("Happy new year    ","<>W")

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score 1 · Answer 1 · 2021-11-29T10:55:56-05:00

You should use $ZSTRIP with the "W" for whitespace: https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls...

score 0 · Answer 2 · 2021-11-29T12:58:21-05:00

alex kosinets · Nov 29, 2021

w $p("Happy new year ..................","...")

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Happy new year

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score 1 · Answer 3 · 2021-11-30T04:59:04-05:00

Danny Wijnschenk · Nov 30, 2021

Write "Happy new year"

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score 0 · Answer 4 · 2021-11-30T05:23:35-05:00

Yuri Marx · Nov 30, 2021

Yeap

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