LlStringTrim

Returns a string that is src with leading and/or trailing white space (spaces, tabs, and line feeds) trimmed from it.

Whenever you are accepting unstructured input from a user -- whether via chat or via a notecard -- it is a good idea to always full trim it:

llStringTrim("User input", STRING_TRIM);

This example returns the number of leading and trailing spaces on a string (not particularly useful but shows how to use the function).

 
default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llListen(4, "", llGetOwner(), "");
    }
    on_rez(integer a)
    {
        llResetScript();
    }
    listen(integer chan, string name, key id, string msg)
    {
        //test for and remove wrapping single or double quotes
        if(~llSubStringIndex("'\"", llGetSubString(msg,0,0)))
            if(llGetSubString(msg,-1,-1) == llGetSubString(msg,0,0))
                msg = llDeleteSubString(msg, -1, 0);
 
        //track the length
        integer length = llStringLength(msg);
 
        //trim msg (not necessary to store these to variables but makes reading easier)
        string trim_left = llStringTrim(msg, STRING_TRIM_HEAD);
        string trim_right = llStringTrim(msg, STRING_TRIM_HEAD);
        string trim = llStringTrim(msg, STRING_TRIM);
 
        //output the results
        llOwnerSay("Initial length = " + (string)length +
                 "\nLeading Spaces = " + (string)(length - llStringLength(trim_left))+
                 "\nTrailing Spaces = " + (string)(length - llStringLength(trim_right))+
                 "\nTrimmed Message = \"" + trim + "\"");
    }
}
 

Aside from spaces at the beginning and / or end, the actually string will be unaffected. This means too, though, that extraneous spaces within the string -- for instance, a mistaken double-space type -- will not be corrected.

The following will remove all double spaces and leading and trailing spaces.

llDumpList2String(llParseString2List(src, [" "], []), " "); //works but can use a large quantity of memory

History

• Introduced in 1.13.4