string = string.filter ({!" ".contains($0) })

这个String扩展删除了字符串中的所有空格，而不仅仅是尾随空格…

 extension String {
    func replace(string:String, replacement:String) -> String {
        return self.replacingOccurrences(of: string, with: replacement, options: NSString.CompareOptions.literal, range: nil)
    }

    func removeWhitespace() -> String {
        return self.replace(string: " ", replacement: "")
    }
  }

例子:

let string = "The quick brown dog jumps over the foxy lady."
let result = string.removeWhitespace() // Thequickbrowndogjumpsoverthefoxylady.

如果你想要从前面(和后面)而不是中间删除空格，你应该使用stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet

    let dirtyString   = " First Word "
    let cleanString = dirtyString.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceCharacterSet())

如果你想从字符串的任何地方删除空格，那么你可能需要查看stringbyreplacement…

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...])
    }
}

这在swift 5中很管用

var myString = " Kwame Ch ef "
myString = myString.replacingOccurrences(of: " ", with: "")
print(myString)

output: Kwame Chef

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"