polars.Series.str.strip_chars#

Series.str.strip_chars(characters: IntoExprColumn | None = None) → Series[source]#

Remove leading and trailing characters.

Parameters:

characters: The set of characters to be removed. All combinations of this set of characters will be stripped from the start and end of the string. If set to None (default), all leading and trailing whitespace is removed instead.

Examples

>>> s = pl.Series([" hello ", "\tworld"])
>>> s.str.strip_chars()
shape: (2,)
Series: '' [str]
[
        "hello"
        "world"
]

Characters can be stripped by passing a string as argument. Note that whitespace will not be stripped automatically when doing so, unless that whitespace is also included in the string.

>>> s.str.strip_chars("o ")
shape: (2,)
Series: '' [str]
[
    "hell"
    "   world"
]