// JavaScript Document
/*
    Useful JavaScript functions that can be used for string manipulation.

    Author: Scott Jibben (scott@jibben.com)
    Create: 12/14/2005 7:55PM
    Update:

    NOTE: THIS NEEDS TO BE INCLUDED BETWEEN THE HEAD TAGS TO BE COMPATIBLE!

    example:
    <script language="JavaScript" src="jcsStringUtils.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

*/


// function to trim leading and trailing spaces from a string
function Trim(str) {
  if (str.length < 1) {
    return "";
  }

  str = RTrim(str);
  str = LTrim(str);

  return str;
}

// function to remove trailing spaces
function RTrim(str){
  return str.replace(/\s+$/,'');
}

// function to remove leading spaces
function LTrim(str) {
  return str.replace(/^\s+/,'');
}