你也可以使用正则表达式。

let trimmedString = myString.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("\\s", withString: "", options: NSStringCompareOptions.RegularExpressionSearch, range: nil)

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"

对于swift 3.0

import Foundation

var str = " Hear me calling"

extension String {
    var stringByRemovingWhitespaces: String {
        return components(separatedBy: .whitespaces).joined()
    }
}

str.stringByRemovingWhitespaces  // Hearmecalling

快速解决方案:

用法:

let txt = "        hello world     "
let txt1 = txt.trimStart() // "hello world     "
let txt2 = txt.trimEnd()   // "        hello world"

用法二:

let txt = "rr rrr rrhello world r r r r r r"
let txt1 = txt.trimStart(["r", " "]) // "hello world r r r r r r"
let txt2 = txt.trimEnd(["r", " "])   // "rr rrr rrhello world"

如果你需要移除字符串中的所有空白:

txt.replace(of: " ", to: "")

public extension String {
    func trimStart(_ char: Character) -> String {
        return trimStart([char])
    }
    
    func trimStart(_ symbols: [Character] = [" ", "\t", "\r", "\n"]) -> String {
        var startIndex = 0
        
        for char in self {
            if symbols.contains(char) {
                startIndex += 1
            }
            else {
                break
            }
        }
        
        if startIndex == 0 {
            return self
        }
        
        return String( self.substring(from: startIndex) )
    }
    
    func trimEnd(_ char: Character) -> String {
        return trimEnd([char])
    }
    
    func trimEnd(_ symbols: [Character] = [" ", "\t", "\r", "\n"]) -> String {
        var endIndex = self.count - 1
        
        for i in (0...endIndex).reversed() {
            if symbols.contains( self[i] ) {
                endIndex -= 1
            }
            else {
                break
            }
        }
        
        if endIndex == self.count {
            return self
        }
        
        return String( self.substring(to: endIndex + 1) )
    }
}

/////////////////////////
/// ACCESS TO CHAR BY INDEX
////////////////////////
extension StringProtocol {
    subscript(offset: Int) -> Character { self[index(startIndex, offsetBy: offset)] }
    subscript(range: Range<Int>) -> SubSequence {
        let startIndex = index(self.startIndex, offsetBy: range.lowerBound)
        return self[startIndex..<index(startIndex, offsetBy: range.count)]
    }
    subscript(range: ClosedRange<Int>) -> SubSequence {
        let startIndex = index(self.startIndex, offsetBy: range.lowerBound)
        return self[startIndex..<index(startIndex, offsetBy: range.count)]
    }
    subscript(range: PartialRangeFrom<Int>) -> SubSequence { self[index(startIndex, offsetBy: range.lowerBound)...] }
    subscript(range: PartialRangeThrough<Int>) -> SubSequence { self[...index(startIndex, offsetBy: range.upperBound)] }
    subscript(range: PartialRangeUpTo<Int>) -> SubSequence { self[..<index(startIndex, offsetBy: range.upperBound)] }
}

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 !"

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