trim - Amazon QuickSight

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trim

trim removes both preceding and following blank space from a string.

Syntax

trim(expression)

Arguments

expression

The expression must be a string. It can be the name of a field that uses the string data type, a literal value like '12 Main Street', or a call to another function that outputs a string.

Return type

String

Example

The following example removes the following spaces from a string.

trim(' Seattle Store #14 ')

For these field values, the following values are returned.

Seattle Store #14