一种优雅的方法可以是

std::string & trim(std::string & str)
{
   return ltrim(rtrim(str));
}

支持功能实现为:

std::string & ltrim(std::string & str)
{
  auto it =  std::find_if( str.begin() , str.end() , [](char ch){ return !std::isspace<char>(ch , std::locale::classic() ) ; } );
  str.erase( str.begin() , it);
  return str;   
}

std::string & rtrim(std::string & str)
{
  auto it =  std::find_if( str.rbegin() , str.rend() , [](char ch){ return !std::isspace<char>(ch , std::locale::classic() ) ; } );
  str.erase( it.base() , str.end() );
  return str;   
}

一旦你把这些都准备好了，你也可以这样写:

std::string trim_copy(std::string const & str)
{
   auto s = str;
   return ltrim(rtrim(s));
}

这个版本对内部空白和非字母数字进行了修整:

static inline std::string &trimAll(std::string &s)
{   
    if(s.size() == 0)
    {
        return s;
    }

    int val = 0;
    for (int cur = 0; cur < s.size(); cur++)
    {
        if(s[cur] != ' ' && std::isalnum(s[cur]))
        {
            s[val] = s[cur];
            val++;
        }
    }
    s.resize(val);
    return s;
}

下面是一个简单的实现。对于这样一个简单的操作，您可能不应该使用任何特殊的构造。内置的isspace()函数负责处理各种形式的白色字符，因此我们应该充分利用它。您还必须考虑字符串为空或只是一堆空格的特殊情况。向左或向右修剪可以从下面的代码派生。

string trimSpace(const string &str) {
   if (str.empty()) return str;
   string::size_type i,j;
   i=0;
   while (i<str.size() && isspace(str[i])) ++i;
   if (i == str.size())
      return string(); // empty string
   j = str.size() - 1;
   //while (j>0 && isspace(str[j])) --j; // the j>0 check is not needed
   while (isspace(str[j])) --j
   return str.substr(i, j-i+1);
}

试试这个，对我很管用。

inline std::string trim(std::string& str)
{
    str.erase(str.find_last_not_of(' ')+1);         //suffixing spaces
    str.erase(0, str.find_first_not_of(' '));       //prefixing spaces
    return str;
}

For what it's worth, here is a trim implementation with an eye towards performance. It's much quicker than many other trim routines I've seen around. Instead of using iterators and std::finds, it uses raw c strings and indices. It optimizes the following special cases: size 0 string (do nothing), string with no whitespace to trim (do nothing), string with only trailing whitespace to trim (just resize the string), string that's entirely whitespace (just clear the string). And finally, in the worst case (string with leading whitespace), it does its best to perform an efficient copy construction, performing only 1 copy and then moving that copy in place of the original string.

void TrimString(std::string & str)
{ 
    if(str.empty())
        return;

    const auto pStr = str.c_str();

    size_t front = 0;
    while(front < str.length() && std::isspace(int(pStr[front]))) {++front;}

    size_t back = str.length();
    while(back > front && std::isspace(int(pStr[back-1]))) {--back;}

    if(0 == front)
    {
        if(back < str.length())
        {
            str.resize(back - front);
        }
    }
    else if(back <= front)
    {
        str.clear();
    }
    else
    {
        str = std::move(std::string(str.begin()+front, str.begin()+back));
    }
}

在c++ 17中，你可以使用basic_string_view::remove_prefix和basic_string_view::remove_suffix:

std::string_view trim(std::string_view s)
{
    s.remove_prefix(std::min(s.find_first_not_of(" \t\r\v\n"), s.size()));
    s.remove_suffix(std::min(s.size() - s.find_last_not_of(" \t\r\v\n") - 1, s.size()));

    return s;
}

一个不错的替代方案:

std::string_view ltrim(std::string_view s)
{
    s.remove_prefix(std::distance(s.cbegin(), std::find_if(s.cbegin(), s.cend(),
         [](int c) {return !std::isspace(c);})));

    return s;
}

std::string_view rtrim(std::string_view s)
{
    s.remove_suffix(std::distance(s.crbegin(), std::find_if(s.crbegin(), s.crend(),
        [](int c) {return !std::isspace(c);})));

    return s;
}

std::string_view trim(std::string_view s)
{
    return ltrim(rtrim(s));
}