The strip() method in-built function of Python is used to remove all the leading and trailing spaces from a string.
Syntax :string.strip([chars])
Parameter:
chars(optional): Character or a set of characters, that needs to be removed from the string.
Returns: A copy of the string with both leading and trailing characters stripped.
Using strip() method:
- In case the character of the string to the left doesn’t match with the characters in the char parameter, the method stops removing the leading characters.
- In case the character of the string to the right doesn’t match with the characters in the char parameter, the method stops removing the trailing characters.
Example #1:
Python3
# Python code to illustrate the working of strip()string = ' Geeks for Geeks '# Leading spaces are removedprint(string.strip())# Geeks is removedprint(string.strip(' Geeks'))# Not removed since the spaces do not matchprint(string.strip('Geeks')) |
Output :
Geeks for Geeks for Geeks for Geeks
Example #2:
Python3
# Python code to illustrate the working of strip()string = '@@@@Geeks for Geeks@@@@@'# Strip all '@' from beginning and endingprint(string.strip('@'))string = 'www.GeeksforLazyroar.org'# '.grow' removes 'www' and 'org' and '.'print(string.strip('.grow')) |
Output:
Geeks for Geeks GeeksforLazyroar
Example #3:
The following code shows an application of strip() in python.
Python3
# Python code to check for identifiersdef Count(string): print("Length before strip()") print(len(string)) # Using strip() to remove white spaces str = string.strip() print("Length after removing spaces") return str# Driver Codestring = " Geeks for Geeks "print(len(Count(string))) |
Output:
Length before strip() 17 Length after removing spaces 15
