• *ADDSLASHES Function
• *concat_keys Function
• *grouping_format_get Function
• *if_error Function
• a5_addtrailingbackslash Function
• a5_changeorderoflist Function
• a5_code_format Function
• a5_pad_leading_tabs Function
• a5_popuptexteditor Function
• a5_remove_curly_brackets Function
• a5_remove_quotes Function
• a5_removetrailingbackslash Function
• a5_unsquare Function
• ALIGN_LEFT Function
• ALLTRIM Function
• CASE Function
• DELIVERY_CODE Function
• IIF Function
• jsescapequotes Function
• LTRIM Function
• PADC Function
• PADL Function
• PADR Function
• profiler_format Function
• QUOTE Function
• RAND_STRING Function
• regex_literal_insert Function
• REPLICATE Function
• RIGHT Function
• RTRIM Function
• savestringtofile Function
• SPACE Function
• TRANSFORM Function
• TRIM Function
• UN_PAREN Function
• UNMASK Function
• unquote Function
• UNQUOTE2 Function
• WORD_WRAP Function

ALLTRIM Function

Syntax

Arguments

character

A character string.

Description

Trims leading and trailing spaces.

Discussion

ALLTRIM() removes leading and trailing blanks, (space and NULL characters) and CRLF and tabs from a Input_String. With any function that compares or searches for values, you may want to use ALLTRIM() so that you do not have to figure in blank spaces in order to find matching values. You also use ALLTRIM() within expressions that concatenate fields. This eliminates the blank spaces between the values that would otherwise result. For more information, see the TRIM()function description.

Example

dim PROD_NAME as C
PROD_NAME = "Silver Fox Irons    "
ALLTRIM("Silver Fox Irons                    ") -> "Silver Fox Irons"
SMATCH("Silver Fox Irons", PROD_NAME) -> FALSE
SMATCH("Silver Fox Irons", ALLTRIM(PROD_NAME)) -> TRUE

See Also

• Character Formatting Functions