<commit_before>---
layout: post
title: "Trim whitespace from strings"
kewyords: "trim, whitespace"
category: strings
comments: true
---

Using `String.strip`, `String.lstrip`, and `String.rstrip` to trim whitespace from strings:

{% highlight elixir %}
iex> String.strip("   abc  ")<commit_msg>Update String.trim recipe<commit_after>---
layout: post
title: "Trim whitespace from strings"
kewyords: "trim, whitespace"
category: strings
comments: true
---

Using `String.trim` to trim whitespace from strings:

{% highlight elixir %}
iex> String.trim("   abc  ")
{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.13392857142857142, 'fraction_numerical': 0.0, 'mean_word_length': 4.905263157894737, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 3, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 5, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
{'dir': 'git-commits-cleaned', 'id': '7578900', 'n_tokens_mistral': 182, 'n_tokens_neox': 175, 'n_words': 59}