C# | Trim() Method
Last Updated :
31 Jan, 2019
C# Trim() is a string method. This method is used to removes all leading and trailing white-space characters from the current String object. This method can be overloaded by passing arguments to it.
Syntax:
public string Trim()
or
public string Trim (params char[] trimChars)
Explanation : First method will not take any parameter and the second method will take an array of Unicode characters or null as a parameter. Null is because of params keyword. The type of Trim() method is System.String.
Note: If no parameter is pass in public string Trim() then Null , TAB, Carriage Return and White Space will automatically remove if they are present in current string object. And If any parameter will pass into the Trim() method then only specified character(which passed as arguments in Trim() method) will be removed from the current string object. Null, TAB, Carriage Return, and White Space will not remove automatically if they are not specified in the arguments list.
Below are the programs to demonstrate the above method :
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Example 1: Program to demonstrate the public string Trim() method. The Trim method removes all leading and trailing white-space characters from the current string object. Each leading and trailing trim operation stops when a non-white-space character is encountered. For example, If current string is ” abc xyz ” and then Trim method returns “abc xyz”.
using System;
class GFG {
public static void Main()
{
string s1 = " GFG" ;
string s2 = " GFG " ;
string s3 = "GFG " ;
Console.WriteLine( "Before:" );
Console.WriteLine(s1);
Console.WriteLine(s2);
Console.WriteLine(s3);
Console.WriteLine( "" );
Console.WriteLine( "After:" );
Console.WriteLine(s1.Trim());
Console.WriteLine(s2.Trim());
Console.WriteLine(s3.Trim());
}
}
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Output:
Before:
GFG
GFG
GFG
After:
GFG
GFG
GFG
- Example 2: Program to demonstrate the public string Trim (params char[] trimChars) method. The Trim method removes from the current string all leading and trailing characters which are present in the parameter list. Each leading and trailing trim operation stops when a character which is not in trimChars encountered. For example, current string is “123abc456xyz789” and trimChars contains the digits from “1 to 9”, then Trim method returns “abc456xyz”.
using System;
class GFG {
public static void Main()
{
char [] charsToTrim1 = { '1' , '2' , '3' , '4' , '5' ,
'6' , '7' , '8' , '9' };
string s1 = "123abc456xyz789" ;
Console.WriteLine( "Before:" + s1);
Console.WriteLine( "After:" + s1.Trim(charsToTrim1));
Console.WriteLine( "" );
char [] charsToTrim2 = { '*' , '1' , 'c' };
string s2 = "*123xyz********c******c" ;
Console.WriteLine( "Before:" + s2);
Console.WriteLine( "After:" + s2.Trim(charsToTrim2));
Console.WriteLine( "" );
char [] charsToTrim3 = { 'G' , 'e' , 'k' , 's' };
string s3 = "GeeksForGeeks" ;
Console.WriteLine( "Before:" + s3);
Console.WriteLine( "After:" + s3.Trim(charsToTrim3));
Console.WriteLine( "" );
string s4 = " Geeks0000" ;
Console.WriteLine( "Before:" + s4);
Console.WriteLine( "After:" + s4.Trim( '0' ));
}
}
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Output:
Before:123abc456xyz789
After:abc456xyz
Before:*123xyz********c******c
After:23xyz
Before:GeeksForGeeks
After:For
Before: Geeks0000
After: Geeks
Important Points About Trim() Method:
- If the Trim method removes any characters from the current instance, then this method does not modify the value of the current instance. Instead, it returns a new string in which all leading and trailing whitespace characters of the current instance will be removed out.
- If the current string equals Empty or all the characters in the current instance consist of white-space characters, the method returns Empty.
Reference: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.trim
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