Functions Reference

182 FileMaker Functions Reference
TrimAll
Format
TrimAll(text;trimSpaces;trimType)
Parameters
text - any text expression or text field
trimSpaces - 0 or False, 1 or True
trimType - 0 through 3 depending on the trim style that you wish to use
Data type returned
text
Description
Returns a copy of text with all leading and trailing spaces removed.
Set trimSpaces to True (1) if you want to include the removal of full-width spaces
between non-Roman and Roman characters. Set trimSpaces to False (0) if you do not.
A character is considered Roman if its unicode value is less than U+2F00. Any character
whose unicode value is greater than or equal to U+2F00 is considered non-Roman.
Characters within the Roman range are those belonging to the following character blocks:
Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A & B, IPA Extensions, Spacing Modifier
Letters, Combining Diacritical Marks, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic,
Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam,
Thai, Lao, Tibetan, Georgian, Hangul Jamo, and additional Latin and Greek extended
blocks.
Symbols within the Roman range include punctuation characters, superscripts,
subscripts, currency symbols, combining marks for symbols, letter-like symbols, number
forms, arrows, math operators, control pictures, geometric shapes, dingbats, and so on.
Characters within the non-Roman range are those belonging to the CJK symbols/
punctuations area, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo, Hangul compatibility Jamo, Kanbun,
CJK unified ideographs, and so on.