$strip¶
Usage: $strip(text)
Category: text
Description:
Replaces all whitespace in text
with a single space, and removes leading and trailing spaces.
Whitespace characters include multiple consecutive spaces, and various other unicode characters.
Characters such as newlines ‘\n’, tabs ‘\t’ and returns ‘\r’ are treated as spaces.
Example:
The following statements will each return “This text has been stripped.”:
$strip(This text has been stripped.)
$strip(This text has been stripped. )
$strip( This text has been stripped. )
$strip( This text has been stripped.)
$strip( This text has been stripped. )
$strip(This text has been stripped.)
$strip(This text\rhas\nbeen\tstripped.)