trim | Itential

The trim task removes whitespace from both ends of a string — the beginning and the end.

Potential use case

If you want to make sure no spaces have been added at the beginning and end of your dataset in a string entry, use the trim task to find and remove them.

Properties

Incoming	Type	Description
`str`	String	Required. The string to remove whitespace from.

Outgoing	Type	Description
`noWhitespace`	String	A new string representing the input `str` stripped of whitespace from both ends.

Example

In this example, a new job variable named “String” is used to input the data into the trim task. The value is Hello World, with spaces at the beginning and end of the string.

New job variable with leading and trailing whitespace

The trim task references the new variable within the reference task. The reference variable is automatically set to accept the incoming str value.

trim task referencing the new variable as input

After running the job, the incoming variable shows whitespace before and after Hello World, as indicated by the placement of the quotation marks.

Incoming tab showing whitespace before and after the string

The noWhitespace result returns “Hello World” with the whitespace removed from both ends.