strtrim

Remove leading and trailing white space from a string

Syntax

newStr = strtrim(str)

newStr = strtrim(str) removes leading and trailing whitespace characters from str and returns the result as newStr.

Note

Only Stateflow^® charts that use MATLAB^® as the action language support the strtrim operator.

h = "    Hello, world!   "
x = strtrim(h)

Stateflow chart that uses the strtrim operator in a state.

Results from stateflow chart that uses the strtrim operator in a state.

This operator does not support structures. For more information about structures in Stateflow, see Access Bus Signals Through Stateflow Structures.

Introduced in R2021b