String Manipulation

[Chuck Hotelier]

Hi all!

I have a dataset which has a bunch of wayward spaces randomly and non-uniformly strewn at the beginning and end of string entries. Is there a quick way to eliminate these?
What I have right now is akin to
CURRENT:
Name:
" Tom "
"Billy "
" Gus"
"Lucky Joe "
"Johnny the Navigator"

The string variable I'd LIKE to have is
DESIRED:
Name:
"Tom"
"Billy"
"Gus"
"Lucky Joe"
"Johnny the Navigator"


I assume this one is not too much of a behemoth if you know what you're doing; I'm still relatively new to Stata and string manipulation is a skill I haven't built up in great degree so far. Thanks all for your time!

[Chuck Hotelier]

Quick clarification -- so if there's a way to remove only a specific character (space) from the beginning and end of every string in this variable, that's exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks again!

[Andrew Musau]

help strtrim()

[Chuck Hotelier]

Exactly what I wanted Andrew; thanks so much