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I thought this would come in handy for someone wanting to trim whitespace from a string or a word.

it will trim all the whitespaces from a work like so: " hi "

it will make it so it looks like this "hi"

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<script language="javascript" type=text/javascript">
function trim(txt){
  var tmp = "";
  var item_length = txt.length;
  var item_length_minus_1 = txt.length - 1;
  for (index = 0; index < item_length; index++){
    if (txt.charAt(index) != ' '){
      tmp += txt.charAt(index);
    }else{
      if (tmp.length > 0){
        if (txt.charAt(index+1) != ' ' && index != item_length_minus_1){
          tmp += txt.charAt(index);
        }
      }
    }
  }
  return tmp;
}
</script>

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// then call it like this


newtxt = trim('fk    dns  fnds gkejgij');