Top "Strip" questions

"strip" refers to the process of removing (stripping) certain characters from a string.

How do I trim whitespace?

Is there a Python function that will trim whitespace (spaces and tabs) from a string? Example: \t example string\t → …

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Split by comma and strip whitespace in Python

I have some python code that splits on comma, but doesn't strip the whitespace: >>> string = "blah, lots , …

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Python strip with \n

This is my problem. I'm trying to read a text file and then convert the lines into floats. The text …

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How to strip all whitespace from string

How do I strip all the spaces in a python string? For example, I want a string like strip my …

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String strip() for JavaScript?

What's a clean and efficient JavaScript implementation to strip leading and trailing spaces from a string? For example: " dog" "dog " " …

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String.strip() in Python

While learning about python, I came upon this code, which takes a text file, splits each line into an array, …

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How can I strip first and last double quotes?

I want to strip double quotes from: string = '"" " " ""\\1" " "" ""' to obtain: string = '" " " ""\\1" " "" "' I tried to use rstrip, …

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Remove trailing newline from the elements of a string list

I have to take a large list of words in the form: ['this\n', 'is\n', 'a\n', 'list\n', …

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Strip spaces/tabs/newlines - python

I am trying to remove all spaces/tabs/newlines in python 2.7 on Linux. I wrote this, that should do the …

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How to strip a specific word from a string?

I need to strip a specific word from a string. But I find python strip method seems can't recognize an …

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