# How can I keep leading and trailing spaces in a parsed string?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-keep-leading-and-trailing-spaces-in-a-parsed-string/55491
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**Created:** [December 12, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-keep-leading-and-trailing-spaces-in-a-parsed-string/55491 "2021-12-12T18:46:06Z")
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### Author: ![mr\_bug](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@mr\_bug](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mr_bug)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-can-i-keep-leading-and-trailing-spaces-in-a-parsed-string/55491/8 "2021-12-13T16:23:33Z")

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> [@Florian](#):
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> I've added `Trim "off|on"` to this preliminary version for you to try.

Thanks for this! Will give it a test.

And in case you're wondering @LyricsLover, [the previous solution](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-say-to-output-without-trimming-whitespace/53276/7) has been working fine, but this new `trim` feature will be a much less hacky approach.

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