September 21st, 2014

PowerTip: Remove Leading and Trailing Spaces with PowerShell

Doctor Scripto
Doctor Scripto
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Summary: Use the Trim() method to remove extraneous space from a String object.

Hey, Scripting Guy! Question Is there an easy way to drop all spaces that are before or after a string in Windows PowerShell?

Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer Use the Trim() method to remove all spaces before and after a string from the output, for example:

$Something='                 I love PowerShell                     '

$Something.trim()

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