Trim a String


<?php show_source(end(explode('/',$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']))); echo "<hr>"; ?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>

    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

    <title>Trim a String</title>

</head>

<body>

<?php

    $sentence = "    This is a short sentence.\r\n";



    $sentence = ltrim($sentence);

    

    echo "($sentence)<br />";



    $sentence = rtrim($sentence);



    echo "($sentence)";

?>

</body>

</html>

Trim a String (This is a short sentence. )
(This is a short sentence.)