How to remove newlines from beginning and end of a string?

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Confiqure picture Confiqure · Sep 17, 2011 · Viewed 191k times · Source

I have a string that contains some text followed by a blank line. What's the best way to keep the part with text, but remove the whitespace newline from the end?

Answer

Crozin picture Crozin · Sep 17, 2011

Use String.trim() method to get rid of whitespaces (spaces, new lines etc.) from the beginning and end of the string.

String trimmedString = myString.trim();

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