Urgent how to trim the spaces that in the text fileds?

Question

Hi ,
I have an email field .If a  person enter the value in to the field along with space i need to validate that field by removing spaces.
I already have validation for this email field as shown below..
function isEmailValid(fld){
                    var result = true;
                    if(fld != null){
                              var r = new RegExp();
                        r.compile("^[a-z0-9_\\-\\.\\']+\\@[a-z0-9_\\-\\.]+\\.[a-z]{2,4}$","i");
                              result = r.test(fld.rawValue);
                    return result;
suggest the best how i will do that
Thanks in advance
Bharathi

Answer 1

Hi Bharathi,
I use this JavaScript function to trim whitespace.
function trimWhitespace(value)              
    if (value.replace)
        return value.replace(/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/, '$1');
    else
        return value;
Hope it helps,
Bruce