// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Remove leading blanks from our string.
 
// I               str - the string we want to LTrim
// Return          the input string without any leading whitespace
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
function LTrim(str)
{
  var whitespace = new String(" \t\n\r");
  var s = new String(str);
 
  if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(0)) != -1) {
    // We have a string with leading blank(s)...
    var j=0, i = s.length;
 
    // Iterate from the far left of string until we
    // don't have any more whitespace...
    while (j < i && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(j)) != -1)
    j++;
 
    // Get the substring from the first non-whitespace
    // character to the end of the string...
    s = s.substring(j, i);
  }
  return s;
}
 
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Remove trailing blanks from our string.
 
// I               str - the string we want to RTrim
// Return          the input string without any trailing whitespace
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
function RTrim(str)
{
  // We don't want to trip JUST spaces, but also tabs,
  // line feeds, etc.  Add anything else you want to
  // "trim" here in Whitespace
  var whitespace = new String(" \t\n\r");
  var s = new String(str);
 
  if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(s.length-1)) != -1) {
    // We have a string with trailing blank(s)...
   	var i = s.length - 1;       // Get length of string
 
    // Iterate from the far right of string until we
    // don't have any more whitespace...
    while (i >= 0 && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(i)) != -1)
      i--;
 
    // Get the substring from the front of the string to
    // where the last non-whitespace character is...
    s = s.substring(0, i+1);
  }
  return s;
}
 
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Remove trailing and leading blanks from our string.
 
// I               str - the string we want to Trim
// Return          the trimmed input string
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
function Trim(str)
{
  return RTrim(LTrim(str));
}