Problem 44. Trimming Spaces

Difficulty:Rate

Given a string, remove all leading and trailing spaces (where space is defined as ASCII 32).

 Input  a = ' singular value decomposition  '
 Output b is 'singular value decomposition'

Solve

Last Solution submitted on Jul 09, 2025

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Selvaraaju Murugesan on 15 Jan 2013

@Franck..use isspace function. There is a difference between whitespace and tab space! BTW strtrim removes both white and tab space !

Sanzhar Askaruly on 3 Jul 2019

pretty easy

Rik on 13 Jan 2021

This problem should probably contain a test with only spaces as well. That requires solutions to be much more robust.

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