{"id":979,"date":"2014-07-18T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/07\/18\/powertip-remove-spaces-from-both-ends-of-string\/"},"modified":"2014-07-18T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-remove-spaces-from-both-ends-of-string","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-remove-spaces-from-both-ends-of-string\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Remove Spaces from Both Ends of String"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Learn to use Windows PowerShell to remove spaces from both ends of a string.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to remove spaces at both ends of a string?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the Trim<\/b> <\/i>method from the System.String<\/b> .NET Framework class. 
          In this example, I create a string with a space at each end of the word, then
          I call the Trim<\/b> <\/i>method to remove both spaces:<\/p>\n

$string = " a String "<\/p>\n

$string.Trim()<\/p>\n

Note<\/b>  The Trim<\/b> method exists on strings, so to use it, simply call it directly from the string. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Learn to use Windows PowerShell to remove spaces from both ends of a string.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to remove spaces at both ends of a string?  Use the Trim method from the System.String .NET Framework class.           In this example, I create a string with a space at each end of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Learn to use Windows PowerShell to remove spaces from both ends of a string.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to remove spaces at both ends of a string?  Use the Trim method from the System.String .NET Framework class.           In this example, I create a string with a space at each end of the […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}