以下是我的看法:

size_t beg = s.find_first_not_of(" \r\n");
return (beg == string::npos) ? "" : in.substr(beg, s.find_last_not_of(" \r\n") - beg);

c++ 11中还加入了正则表达式模块，当然可以用它来修饰开头或结尾的空格。

也许是这样的:

std::string ltrim(const std::string& s)
{
    static const std::regex lws{"^[[:space:]]*", std::regex_constants::extended};
    return std::regex_replace(s, lws, "");
}

std::string rtrim(const std::string& s)
{
    static const std::regex tws{"[[:space:]]*$", std::regex_constants::extended};
    return std::regex_replace(s, tws, "");
}

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

看来我真的是姗姗来迟了——我不敢相信7年前有人问我这个问题!

以下是我对这个问题的看法。我正在做一个项目，现在不想麻烦地使用Boost。

std::string trim(std::string str) {
    if(str.length() == 0) return str;

    int beg = 0, end = str.length() - 1;
    while (str[beg] == ' ') {
        beg++;
    }

    while (str[end] == ' ') {
        end--;
    }

    return str.substr(beg, end - beg + 1);
}

这个解决方案将从左边和右边修剪。

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));
    }
}

这就是我用的。继续把前面的空格去掉，然后，如果还有剩余的，从后面也这样做。

void trim(string& s) {
    while(s.compare(0,1," ")==0)
        s.erase(s.begin()); // remove leading whitespaces
    while(s.size()>0 && s.compare(s.size()-1,1," ")==0)
        s.erase(s.end()-1); // remove trailing whitespaces
}

使用Boost的字符串算法是最简单的:

#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>

std::string str("hello world! ");
boost::trim_right(str);

STR现在是"hello world!"。还有trim_left和trim，它们修剪两边。

如果你给上面的函数名加上_copy后缀，例如trim_copy，函数将返回一个经过修剪的字符串副本，而不是通过引用修改它。

如果你给上面的任何函数名加上_if后缀，例如trim_copy_if，你可以修剪所有满足自定义谓词的字符，而不是只有空白。