Trim leading and trailing whitespaces from a string in Go (Golang)

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Overview

In GO string are UTF-8 encoded. strings package of GO provides a TrimSpace method that can be used to remove the leading and trailing whitespaces. Also, note that this function returns the copy of the string.

Below is the signature of the function

func TrimSpace(s string) string

Let’s look at the working code

Code:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    //This will output removed
    res := strings.TrimSpace(" test  ")
    fmt.Println(res)

    res = strings.TrimSpace(" This is test  ")
    fmt.Println(res)
}

Output:

test
This is test