Trim spaces in string - LTRIM RTRIM not working

Question

I tried this code -

UPDATE Table
SET Name = RTRIM(LTRIM(Name))

Data type of Name is varchar(25)

None of the leading and t

Answer 1

You could do something brute force, such as removing the first character "manually" if it is not alphanumeric:

update table
    set name = rtrim(ltrim(case when name not like '[a-zA-Z0-9]%'
                                then stuff(name, 1, 1, '')
                                else name
                           end)
                    );

You could also search and replace that particular character:

update table
    set name = rtrim(ltrim(replace(name, "big dash", '')));