Trim spaces from start and end of string

Question

I am trying to find a way to trim spaces from the start and end of the title string. I was using this, but it doesn\'t seem to be working:

title = title.repl         


        

Answer 1

a recursive try for this

function t(k){ 
    if (k[0]==' ') {
        return t(k.substr(1,k.length));
    } else if (k[k.length-1]==' ') {
        return t(k.substr(0,k.length-1));
    } else {
        return k;
    }
}

call like this:

t("      mehmet       "); //=>"mehmet"

if you want to filter spesific chars you can define a list string basically:

function t(k){
    var l="\r\n\t "; //you can add more chars here.
    if (l.indexOf(k[0])>-1) {
        return t(k.substr(1,k.length));
    } else if (l.indexOf(k[k.length-1])>-1) {
        return t(k.substr(0,k.length-1));
    } else {
        return k;
    }
}