JavaScript: Strip leading and trailing spaces from a string

Last update on May 30 2022 09:59:39 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

JavaScript String: Exercise-23 with Solution

Write a JavaScript function to strip leading and trailing spaces from a string.

Test Data:
console.log(strip('w3resource '));
console.log(strip(' w3resource'));
console.log(strip(' w3resource '));
Output :
"w3resource"
"w3resource"
"w3resource"

Sample Solution:-

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Write a JavaScript function to strip leading and trailing spaces from a string.</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

JavaScript Code:

function strip(str) {
    return str.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');
}

console.log(strip('w3resource '));
console.log(strip(' w3resource'));
console.log(strip(' w3resource  '));

Sample Output:

w3resource
w3resource
w3resource.

Flowchart:

Live Demo:

See the Pen JavaScript Strip leading and trailing spaces from a string - string-ex-23 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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How to insert an item into an array at a specific index (JavaScript)?

What you want is the splice function on the native array object.

arr.splice(index, 0, item); will insert item into arr at the specified index (deleting 0 items first, that is, it's just an insert). In this example we will create an array and add an element to it into index 2:

var arr = [];
arr[0] = "Jani";
arr[1] = "Hege";
arr[2] = "Stale";
arr[3] = "Kai Jim";
arr[4] = "Borge";

console.log(arr.join());
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