STRIP

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Use the STRIP function to remove blanks or another specified character from the end, beginning, or both ends of a string expression. The format appears below:

STRIP (expression [,BOTH [,strip-character]|,LEADING |,TRAILING])

where:

expression A string expression.
strip-character A single character constant that indicates the character that is to be removed.