Haskell Language Data.Text Stripping whitespace
Example
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
import qualified Data.Text as T
myText :: T.Text
myText = "\n\r\t leading and trailing whitespace \t\r\n"
strip removes whitespace from the start and end of a Text value.
ghci> T.strip myText
"leading and trailing whitespace"
stripStart removes whitespace only from the start.
ghci> T.stripStart myText
"leading and trailing whitespace \t\r\n"
stripEnd removes whitespace only from the end.
ghci> T.stripEnd myText
"\n\r\t leading and trailing whitespace"
filter can be used to remove whitespace, or other characters, from the middle.
ghci> T.filter /=' ' "spaces in the middle of a text string"
"spacesinthemiddleofatextstring"
