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layout: "language"
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page_title: "trim - Functions - Configuration Language"
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sidebar_current: "docs-funcs-string-trim"
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description: |-
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The trim function removes the specified characters from the start and end of
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a given string.
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# `trim` Function
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-> **Note:** This page is about Terraform 0.12 and later. For Terraform 0.11 and
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earlier, see
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[0.11 Configuration Language: Interpolation Syntax](../../configuration-0-11/interpolation.html).
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`trim` removes the specified characters from the start and end of the given
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string.
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## Examples
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```
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> trim("?!hello?!", "!?")
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hello
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```
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## Related Functions
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* [`trimprefix`](./trimprefix.html) removes a word from the start of a string.
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* [`trimsuffix`](./trimsuffix.html) removes a word from the end of a string.
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* [`trimspace`](./trimspace.html) removes all types of whitespace from
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both the start and the end of a string.
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