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This can be used to trimming SR or other data that is passed to JSP’s

function trim(strText) {
    // this will get rid of leading spaces
    while (strText.substring(0,1) == ‘ ‘)
        strText = strText.substring(1, strText.length);

    // this will get rid of trailing spaces
    while (strText.substring(strText.length-1,strText.length) == ‘ ‘)
        strText = strText.substring(0, strText.length-1);

   return strText;
}