bigframes.pandas.api.typing.StringMethods.strip#

StringMethods.strip(to_strip:str|None=None)→T[source]#

Remove leading and trailing characters.

Strip whitespaces (including newlines) or a set of specified charactersfrom each string in the Series/Index from left and right sides.Replaces any non-strings in Series with NaNs.Equivalent tostr.strip().

Examples:

>>>importbigframes.pandasasbpd

>>>s=bpd.Series([...'1. Ant.',...'  2. Bee? ',...'\t3. Cat!\n',...pd.NA,...])>>>s.str.strip()0    1. Ant.1    2. Bee?2    3. Cat!3       <NA>dtype: string

>>>s.str.strip('123.!?\n\t')0       Ant1       Bee2       Cat3       <NA>dtype: string

Parameters:

to_strip (str,default None) – Specifying the set of characters to be removed. All combinationsof this set of characters will be stripped. If None thenwhitespaces are removed.

Returns:

Series or Index without leading

and trailing characters.

Return type:

bigframes.series.Series