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functx:right-trim

Trims trailing whitespace

Description

The functx:right-trim function removes all whitespace at the end of $arg. Whitespace is defined as it is in XML, namely space, tab, carriage return and line feed. If $arg is the empty sequence, it returns a zero-length string.

Arguments and Return Type

XQuery Function Declaration

declare namespace functx = "http://www.functx.com";
declare function functx:right-trim
  ( $arg as xs:string? )  as xs:string {

   replace($arg,'\s+$','')
 } ;

Examples

functx:right-trim('xyz   ')

xyz

functx:right-trim('  x   xyz  ')

  x   xyz

functx:right-trim('xyz')

xyz

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