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Removes leading and trailing spaces from a string.
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A copy of string, after removing leading and trailing spaces. 
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String functions
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    <td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><span class="title">Function syntax</span><pre>Trim(string)
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LTrim, RTrim
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    <td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><span class="title">Example</span><pre>&lt;h3&gt;Trim Example&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;cfif IsDefined(&quot;FORM.myText&quot;)&gt;
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         Your string:   &quot;#FORM.myText#&quot;
         Your string:   &quot;#Trim(FORM.myText)#&quot;
         (trimmed on both sides)
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&lt;form method = &quot;post&quot; action = &quot;trim.cfm&quot;&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Type in some text, and it will be modified by trim to remove leading 
spaces from the left and right
&lt;p&gt;&lt;input type = &quot;Text&quot; name = &quot;myText&quot; value = &quot;   TEST   &quot;&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;input type = &quot;Submit&quot; name = &quot;&quot;&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;
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<p>A string or a variable that contains one</p>

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