note 76226 deleted from function.trim by hholzgra

Note Submitter: moehbass at gmail dot com ---- Responding to Robin Leffmann: jayoungh5 wrote a function to trim whitespace on the left, on the right, in the middle, everywhere (Below). It iterates through the string's characters. Yours, claimed to be faster, uses a regex function. I think it should be slower since I believe that dealing with a regex is iterative in nature and add to that the possibility of recursion! Perhaps your function is shorter in code lines. I am not absolutely positive, so take this as a clue but research for a more solid truth.