$trim - Amazon DocumentDB
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$trim

New from version 4.0

The $trim operator in Amazon DocumentDB is used to remove leading and/or trailing whitespace characters from a string.

Parameters

  • input: The string expression to trim.

  • chars: (optional) Specifies the characters to trim from the beginning and end of the input, the default is whitespace.

Example (MongoDB Shell)

The following example demonstrates how to use the $trim operator to remove leading and trailing whitespace from a string.

Create sample documents

db.people.insertMany([ { "name": " John Doe " }, { "name": " Bob Johnson " } ])

Query example

db.people.aggregate([ { $project: { "name": { $trim: {input: "$name"}} }} ])

Output

[ { "name": "John Doe" }, { "name": "Bob Johnson" } ]

Code examples

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Node.js
const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb'); async function example() { const client = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false'); const db = client.db('test'); const collection = db.collection('people'); const result = await collection.aggregate([ { $project: { "name": { $trim: {input: "$name" }} }} ]).toArray(); console.log(result); client.close(); } example();
Python
from pymongo import MongoClient def example(): client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false') db = client['test'] collection = db['people'] result = list(collection.aggregate([ {"$project": { "name": {"$trim": {"input": "$name"}} }} ])) print(result) client.close() example()