Language Reference

TRIM(STRING)

Returns the argument with trailing blank characters removed.

STRING

must be of type character and must be a scalar.

Class

Transformational function

Result Type and Attributes

Character with the same kind type parameter value as STRING and with a length that is the length of STRING less the number of trailing blanks in STRING.

Result Value

• The value of the result is the same as STRING, except trailing blanks are removed.
• If STRING contains no nonblank characters, the result has zero length.

Examples

TRIM (' A B  ') has the value ' A B'.