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        function RTrim(str)
        /***
                PURPOSE: Remove trailing blanks from our string.
                IN: str - the string we want to RTrim

                RETVAL: An RTrimmed string!
        ***/
        {
                // We don't want to trip JUST spaces, but also tabs,
                // line feeds, etc.  Add anything else you want to
                // "trim" here in Whitespace
                var whitespace = new String(" \t\n\r");

                var s = new String(str);

                if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(s.length-1)) != -1) {
                    // We have a string with trailing blank(s)...

                    var i = s.length - 1;       // Get length of string

                    // Iterate from the far right of string until we
                    // don't have any more whitespace...
                    while (i >= 0 && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(i)) != -1)
                        i--;


                    // Get the substring from the front of the string to
                    // where the last non-whitespace character is...
                    s = s.substring(0, i+1);
                }

                return s;
        }


        function LTrim(str)
        /***
                PURPOSE: Remove leading blanks from our string.
                IN: str - the string we want to LTrim

                RETVAL: An LTrimmed string!
        ***/
        {
                var whitespace = new String(" \t\n\r");

                var s = new String(str);

                if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(0)) != -1) {
                    // We have a string with leading blank(s)...

                    var j=0, i = s.length;

                    // Iterate from the far left of string until we
                    // don't have any more whitespace...
                    while (j < i && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(j)) != -1)
                        j++;


                    // Get the substring from the first non-whitespace
                    // character to the end of the string...
                    s = s.substring(j, i);
                }

                return s;
        }



        function Trim(str)
        /***
                PURPOSE: Remove trailing and leading blanks from our string.
                IN: str - the string we want to Trim

                RETVAL: A Trimmed string!
        ***/
        {
                return RTrim(LTrim(str));
        }
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