e">EXAMPLES</div><pre class="mendoza-codeblock"><code><span class="mdzsyn-comment"># trim leading and trailing whitespace</span>
(<span class="mdzsyn-coresym">string/trim</span> <span class="mdzsyn-string">"  foo "</span>) <span class="mdzsyn-comment"># -&gt; "foo"</span>

<span class="mdzsyn-comment"># default whitespace includes " \t\r\n\v\f"</span>
(<span class="mdzsyn-coresym">string/trim</span> <span class="mdzsyn-string">"\t bar\n\r\f"</span>) <span class="mdzsyn-comment"># -&gt; "bar"</span>

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