trim()

Removes all leading and trailing matches of the specified regular expression.

Syntax

trim(regex, source)

Parameters

Returns

source after trimming matches of regex found in the beginning and/or the end of source.

Examples

Trim specific substring

The following example trims substring from the start and the end of the string_to_trim.

let string_to_trim = @"--https://bing.com--";
let substring = "--";
print string_to_trim = string_to_trim, trimmed_string = trim(substring,string_to_trim)

Output

Trim non-alphanumeric characters

The following example trims all non-word characters from start and end of the string.

range x from 1 to 5 step 1
| project str = strcat("-  ","Te st",x,@"// $")
| extend trimmed_str = trim(@"[^\w]+",str)

Output

Trim whitespaces

The next statement trims all spaces from start and end of the string.

let string_to_trim = @"    Hello, world!    ";
let substring = @"\s+";
print
    string_to_trim = string_to_trim,
    trimmed_string = trim(substring, string_to_trim)

Output