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Semantics | All strings that correspond to the regular expression pattern will be replaced with the string replacement . If the pattern does not match, the unchanged string will be returned. Returns a new string. The state of the current string is not changed. | ||
Substitutables | aString , replacement | Can be any variable or object attribute having the type String. | |
regExpPattern | Regular expression (see Regular Expressions for a list of valid regular expressions). An introduction into regular expressions can be found at http://www.regular-expressions.info/. | ||
LITERAL | String literal. | ||
Examples |
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If you want to trim leading or trailing spaces or whitespaces of a string, you can use regular expressions in order to remove them.
Trimming leading spaces |
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Trimming trailing spaces |
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Trimming leading and trailing spaces |
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Trimming leading spaces and whitespaces (\t) |
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