iphone shortcuts - remove spaces

[Frank M]

7/7/20

I have a string of characters in my shortcut with a value of
“ ApplePay transactions”.

Using the Replace action (replace a space with nothing) I can get “ApplePaytransactions” but I want
the final string to be
“ApplePay transactions”.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Frank M

 

[chabig]

Take two steps:

1. Delete the spaces as you've already done
2. Replace "yt" with "y t"

 

[Frank M]

Take two steps:

1. Delete the spaces as you've already done
2. Replace "yt" with "y t"

Thanks for you quick reply.

Your solution is fine for the string in question but what if I don’t know the value of the string beforehand.

Frank M

 

[chabig]

You could do it one step if you can identify the space at the beginning of the line. One way would be with some kind of wildcard, like " *".

 

[Frank M]

Thanks for you quick reply.

Your solution is fine for the string in question but what if I don’t know the value of the string beforehand.

Frank M

After much trial and error I finally came up with a solution to trim spaces from a string (in this case a Shortcut name).

If interested here is a link to the shortcut in question.

Create an iCloud link for a shortcut

Frank M