Best program or clipboard manager to trim whitespace from Windows clipboard on copy/paste?

Question

Is there a program, or a clipboard manager with a plugin for Windows that can automatically trim the beginning and ending whitespace from text copied into the clipboard before pasting?

I've found many clipboard manager programs, but none that specifically list this feature. There is a discussion in the AutoHotkey forums about doing this, with no solid answer. I emailed the developer of PureText my idea and he said he will try to work this option into his program when he gets the chance.

Is there a good clipboard manager which auto-trims whitespace?

Answer 1

I looked up every single clipboard manager program and finally found one that automatically scrubs whitespace from the beginning and end of copied text.

http://www.clipboardfusion.com/

It can play a sound when the whitespace is "scrubbed" and there are optional find-and-replace options too. Really nice.

Answer 2

I personally use the voice-recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking to handle copy-pasting operations. By default, I trim the text when I say the command copy, which I wrote in advanced scripting, as the following (as you can see it is not very advanced):

Sub Main
    Clipboard(Trim(Clipboard))
End Sub

Documentation on Trim():

Returns a string that contains a copy of a specified string without leading spaces (LTrim), without trailing spaces (RTrim), or without leading or trailing spaces (Trim):

Public Shared Function LTrim(ByVal str As String) As String
Public Shared Function RTrim(ByVal str As String) As String
Public Shared Function Trim(ByVal str As String) As String

PS: (unrelated to Dragon) http://outertech.com/en/clipboard-history does trailing only.

Answer 3

You can use a script to do it with AutoHotkey (scripting language for desktop automation on Windows):

~^v::
Trimmed := RegExReplace(Clipboard, "^\s+", "")
Trimmed := RegExReplace(Trimmed, "\s+$", "")
Clipboard = %Trimmed%
return

Answer 4

You can also do it with the Spartan clipboard manager. I work for them so I'm biased but it does the job nicely. You even have the option to have it happen when you Ctrl+C then Ctrl+v without having to refer to the program at all.