Remove Multiple Spaces Before and After Characters PHP

Question

say I have a string like so

 Testing

How could I have it remove all spaces before the first letter, and all spaces after the last letter in the string.

Thanks!

Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1892763/how-to-trim-leftmost-and-rightmost-whitespaces-of-a-string-using-php — Mark Byers, Apr 07 '10 at 20:41

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 07 '10 at 20:39

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Look here for all string functions in PHP.

use trim(string)

answered Apr 07 '10 at 20:39

Aaron

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 07 '10 at 20:38

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Be sure to have this close by: String functions in PHP

answered Apr 07 '10 at 20:38

Pekka

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 07 '10 at 20:39

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Try the trim function.

answered Apr 07 '10 at 20:39

Ben Torell

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 07 '10 at 20:39

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string trim  (  string $str  [,  string $charlist  ] )

answered Apr 07 '10 at 20:39

MJB

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