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TRIM ​

Trims spaces off the end of a character expression.

Reporting Area(s) ​

General

Required Parameters ​

  1. Field to be trimmed (i.e. cocrsenm, nmfirm, rgstatus)

Optional Parameters ​

  1. Numeric value to determine case sensitivity when using parameter 3. If 0, search is case-sensitive. If 1, search is case-insensitive.
  2. Character string to remove (i.e. "<p>").

Example(s) ​

TRIM(cocrsenm) returns course name without any trailing spaces

TRIM(cadesc2,1,"<p>") returns cadesc2 with the <p> tag removed from the end of the field.

Notes ​

Standard FoxPro Function

Also, ALLTRIM(fieldname) trims spaces off of left and right sides, LTRIM(fieldname) trims spaces off of Left side of expression