Text - Trim

Property

Type

Required

Default

Markup

Description

Text to remove from

Text

Yes

(Empty)

TEXT="My Name is Joe"

The target text to be trimmed. As with every text parameter, if the data you wish to enter is contained in a variable, simply enter the variable name surrounded by percentage signs to resolve it to it's contents at runtime (e.g.,%VarName%).

Remove from

Text (options)

No

beginning and end

1. ACTION="remove_beginning_and_ end"

2. ACTION="remove_beginning"

3. ACTION="remove_end"

Specifies where the text is trimmed. The available options are:

• Beginning and end (default): Text is stripped from the beginning and end of the target text.

• Beginning: Text is stripped from the beginning of the target text.

• End: Text is stripped from the end of the target text.

Remove

Text (options)

No

Whitespace

1. ACTION="whitespace"

2. ACTION="returns"

3. ACTION="spaces"

4. ACTION="tabs"

5. ACTION="user"

The character(s) to remove from the string. The available options are:

• Whitespace (default) - All whitespace characters will be removed from the string.

• Carriage returns - Carriage returns will be removed from the string

• Spaces - Spaces will be removed from the string

• Tabs: Tabs will be removed from the string

• User defined: The text entered in the Characters to Remove parameter will be removed from the string.

Characters to remove

Text

Yes if Remove is User defined

(Empty)

CHARACTERS="x"

The user defined character(s) to remove. This parameter is active only if the Remove parameter is set to User defined.

Characters can be in any order

Yes/No

No

No

ORDERED="NO"

If set YES, characters to be removed can be in any order. If set to NO, characters to be removed must be in the order entered.

Populate variable with result

Text

Yes

(Empty)

RESULTVARIABLE="varname"

The name of the variable to receive the new formatted text value.

<AMVARIABLE NAME="theVar">|Hello World|</AMVARIABLE>

<AMSHOWDIALOG MESSAGE="The text before Trim Text action: %theVar%" />

<AMTEXTREMOVE REMOVE="user" CHARACTERS="|" TEXT="%theVar%" RESULTVARIABLE="theVar" />

<AMSHOWDIALOG MESSAGE="The text after Trim Text action: %theVar%" />