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title: "trim — Strip whitespaces"
description: "iXML command trim: Strip whitespaces."
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---

# trim — Strip whitespaces

TRIM strips whitespace characters from the beginning and/or end of a value.

### Attributes
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| ---- | ---- | ------- | ----------- |
| var | var |  | Result variable name |
| type | type | both | Direction type |

#### Possible values
Possible values for `type`:
- both — Both
- left — From left
- right — From right


### Children
- (none)

### Parents
- (not restricted in the reference)

### Result
- binding: var; type: string

### Examples

```xml
<output>
	<trim>     iXML     </trim>
</output>

<!-- iXML -->
```