Run results for: Regex removing whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.5060.134 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 103

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
regex	817655.0 Ops/sec
trim	3960676.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = '    fsajdf asdfjosa fjoiawejf oawjfoei jaosdjfsdjfo sfjos 2324234 sdf safjao j o        sdlfks dflks l      '

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var string = '    fsajdf asdfjosa fjoiawejf oawjfoei jaosdjfsdjfo sfjos 2324234 sdf safjao j o        sdlfks dflks l      '

Tests:

regex
string.replace(/^\s+|\s+$|\s+(?=\s)/g, '')
string.replace(/^\s+|\s+$|\s+(?=\s)/g, '')
trim
string.trim()
string.trim()