How to remove all white space from the beginning or end of a string?

String.Trim() returns a string which equals the input string with all white-spaces trimmed from start and end:

"   A String   ".Trim() -> "A String"

String.TrimStart() returns a string with white-spaces trimmed from the start:

"   A String   ".TrimStart() -> "A String   "

String.TrimEnd() returns a string with white-spaces trimmed from the end:

"   A String   ".TrimEnd() -> "   A String"

None of the methods modify the original string object.

(In some implementations at least, if there are no white-spaces to be trimmed, you get back the same string object you started with:

csharp> string a = "a"; csharp> string trimmed = a.Trim(); csharp> (object) a == (object) trimmed; returns true

I don't know whether this is guaranteed by the language.)


take a look at Trim() which returns a new string with whitespace removed from the beginning and end of the string it is called on.


string a = "   Hello   ";
string trimmed = a.Trim();

trimmed is now "Hello"