String Strip / Trim in Scala in Scala

In Scala, you can remove leading and trailing whitespace from a string using strip() (Scala 11+) or trim():

s.strip()        // removes leading and trailing whitespace (Unicode-aware)
s.trim()         // removes leading and trailing ASCII whitespace
s.stripLeading() // removes only leading whitespace
s.stripTrailing()// removes only trailing whitespace

Here are some examples:

var s = "  hello  "
println(s.strip())         // "hello"
println(s.stripLeading())  // "hello  "
println(s.stripTrailing()) // "  hello"

These methods return a new String — the original is not modified.