Trim trailing spaces in Numbers '09

I have tried to use Trim to delete trailing spaces. Which it does, but then if I copy and paste the value of the cell with the trim formula, I get the original value with the trailing space.
I have a large messy spreadsheet with lots of cells with trailing spaces which makes using reference formulas harder for me since I can't find exact matches (due to the trailing spaces)
How do I copy the string without the trailing space?

If you copy/pasted that text from A2 into your post, the final character is not a space. I copy/pasted from your post to a table and the last character is code 160 (A0 hex) which looks like a space but is not. TRIM will not remove that.
Try this
=SUBSTITUTE(A2,CHAR(160),"")
If that removes other "spaces" in your string that you want to keep, try this instead
=TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A2,CHAR(160)," "))

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Hi,
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