PRO string_conversions

; this example demonstrates how to remove whitespace from the front of a string
c = string(56)
help, c
c = strtrim(c, 1)
help, c

; this example demonstrates how to remove all white spaces from a string
s = 'This is a string with spaces in it.'
r = strcompress(s,/remove_all)
print, r

; this example demonstrates how to extract a subset of a string
b = strmid(r, 7, 6)
print, b

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