Hi Stata Users,

I am using strtrim command in Stata 15. The goal is to remove blank spaces at the beginning and end of a string character.

An example of the data is below

Code:
* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input str54 code
"50800000-3 "
" 33169000-2"
" 66514100-7"
" 66514100-7"
" 66514100-7"
" 66514100-7"
" 50410000-2"
" 39710000-2"
"03200000-3 "
end
and the command am is
Code:
replace code = strtrim(code)
Please let me know what am doing wrong or a different way to approach the same results.

Thanks in advance!