extension String {

    var removingWhitespaceAndNewLines: String {
        return removing(.whitespacesAndNewlines)
    }

    func removing(_ forbiddenCharacters: CharacterSet) -> String {
        return String(unicodeScalars.filter({ !forbiddenCharacters.contains($0) }))
    }
}

我会使用这个扩展，以灵活和模仿其他集合如何做到这一点:

extension String {
    func filter(pred: Character -> Bool) -> String {
        var res = String()
        for c in self.characters {
            if pred(c) {
                res.append(c)
            }
        }
        return res
    }
}

"this is a String".filter { $0 != Character(" ") } // "thisisaString"

另一个答案是，有时输入字符串在单词之间可以包含多个空格。如果你需要标准化，单词之间只有一个空格，试试这个(Swift 4/5)

let inputString = "  a very     strange   text !    "
let validInput = inputString.components(separatedBy:.whitespacesAndNewlines).filter { $0.count > 0 }.joined(separator: " ")

print(validInput) // "a very strange text !"

删除开头和结尾的空格:

let trimmedString = string.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceCharacterSet())

Swift 3 / Swift 4:

let trimmedString = string.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespaces)

class SpaceRemover
{
    func SpaceRemover(str :String)->String
    {
        var array = Array(str)
        var i = array.count
        while(array.last == " ")
        {
            var array1 = [Character]()
            for item in  0...i - 1
            {
                array1.append(array[item])
            }
            i = i - 1
            array = array1
            print(array1)
            print(array)

        }

        var arraySecond = array
        var j = arraySecond.count

        while(arraySecond.first == " ")
        {
            var array2 = [Character]()
            if j > 1
            {
                for item in 1..<j
                {
                    array2.append(arraySecond[item])
                }
            }
            j = j - 1
            arraySecond = array2
            print(array2)
            print(arraySecond)

        }
        print(arraySecond)
        return String(arraySecond)
    }
}

当你想要删除所有类型的空白时(基于这个SO答案)的正确方法是:

extension String {
    var stringByRemovingWhitespaces: String {
        let components = componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet(.whitespaceCharacterSet())
        return components.joinWithSeparator("")
    }
}

Swift 3.0+ (3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0)

extension String {
    func removingWhitespaces() -> String {
        return components(separatedBy: .whitespaces).joined()
    }
}

EDIT

这个答案是在问题是关于删除所有空白时发布的，问题被编辑为只提到前导空白。如果你只想删除前导空白，请使用以下方法:

extension String {
    func removingLeadingSpaces() -> String {
        guard let index = firstIndex(where: { !CharacterSet(charactersIn: String($0)).isSubset(of: .whitespaces) }) else {
            return self
        }
        return String(self[index...])
    }
}