What does 'Trim Whitespace' mean?

Trimming whitespace is a two-part process: 1) It removes all 'leading' (at the start) and 'trailing' (at the end) spaces, tabs, or newlines from your text. 2) It 'collapses' any extra spaces *between* words into a single space.

What is an example of trimming?

The text ' Hello world! ' would be trimmed to 'Hello world!'. The spaces at the beginning and end are removed, and the five spaces in the middle are collapsed into one.

Why do I need to remove extra spaces?

Often when you copy and paste text from PDFs, emails, or websites, you get hidden tabs or extra spaces. This can break code, database queries, or create ugly formatting. This tool instantly cleans it.

Trim Whitespace Tool

Remove leading, trailing, and extra spaces from text.

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What is Trim Whitespace?

Trimming whitespace is a common text cleaning operation. This tool performs two functions at once:

Trim Leading/Trailing Spaces: It removes all "whitespace" (spaces, tabs, newlines) from the very beginning and very end of your text.
Collapse Extra Spaces: It finds any instances of multiple spaces *between* words and collapses them down to a single space.

Example:
The input " Hello World! "
...becomes: "Hello World!"

This is extremely useful for cleaning up data copied from messy sources like PDFs, web pages, or user-submitted forms, ensuring your data is standardized.

Trimming Examples

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Whitespace & Data Cleaning Tips

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Data Cleaning Workflow

Trimming whitespace is often the first step in data cleaning. Before sorting, removing duplicates, or analyzing text, use this tool to "normalize" it. This ensures that "apple" and " apple " are treated as the same word.

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Copy/Paste Problems

When you copy text from a PDF, email, or website, you often get hidden characters, extra line breaks, or multiple spaces. Pasting the text here first is the fastest way to clean it up before using it elsewhere.

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Trimming in Code

In most programming languages, this is a two-step process. In JavaScript, you'd use text.trim() to remove leading/trailing spaces, and then text.replace(/\s+/g, ' ') to collapse the internal spaces. This tool does both for you automatically.