function trim(str)// We don't want to trip JUST spaces, but also tabs,line feeds, etc.  Add anything else you want to "trim" here in Whitespace
{
  return RTrim(LTrim(str));
}
function RTrim(str)
{  
  var whitespace = new String(" \t\n\r");
  var s = new String(str);
  if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(s.length-1)) != -1) // We have a string with trailing blank(s)...
  {       
        var i = s.length - 1; // Get length of string        
        while (i >= 0 && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(i)) != -1)// Iterate from the far right of string until we don't have any more whitespace...
          i--;        
        s = s.substring(0, i+1);// Get the substring from the front of the string to where the last non-whitespace character is...
   }
  return s;
}
function LTrim(str)
{
  var whitespace = new String(" \t\n\r");
  var s = new String(str);
  if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(0)) != -1) // We have a string with leading blank(s)...
  {        
        var j=0, i = s.length;        
        while (j < i && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(j)) != -1)// Iterate from the far left of string until we don't have any more whitespace...
            j++;        
        s = s.substring(j, i);// Get the substring from the first non-whitespace character to the end of the string...
  }
  return s;
}