How to trim leftmost and rightmost whitespaces of a string using PHP?

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What function can I use?

@Filburt Your [possible duplicate](http://stackoverflow.com/q/122616/1267661) is in C not PHP. I would use trim() like the accepted answer here... — Sam, Aug 25 '12 at 23:41

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 12 '09 at 08:28

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left most

ltrim('text');

right most

rtrim('text');

but shortcut of above two is simply

trim('text');

answered Dec 12 '09 at 08:28

Sarfraz

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 12 '09 at 08:28

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Use trim to remove whitespace at the start and end of a string.

answered Dec 12 '09 at 08:28

Gumbo

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 12 '09 at 08:28

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This function returns a string with whitespace stripped from the beginning and end of str

answered Dec 12 '09 at 08:28

pek

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 12 '09 at 08:28

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answered Dec 12 '09 at 08:28

Fifth-Edition

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 12 '09 at 08:28

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Checkout PHP Trim.

answered Dec 12 '09 at 08:28

Shoban

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