go to post Tyler Roark · Aug 13, 2020 While I agree that you need to identify the ascii value of the characters you have at the end, I do want to note that to remove trailing whitespaces, the syntax is $zstrip(x,">W") Using that removes trailing whitespaces as you can see in the example below. Additionally, to add the stripping of "control characters" you would just add the C, so $zstrip(x,">WC") >set x = " apple " >write "/" _ $zstrip(x,">W") _ "/"/ apple/>