When you are tokenizing a string that was entered by the user and you are using characters other than white spaces as delimiters, you do not need to trim the string before tokenizing it.

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If the string contains characters such as tabs, new lines, or other whitespace characters at the beginning or end, these characters will also be split as separate tokens if not trimmed beforehand. Therefore, it is recommended to always trim the string before tokenizing it.

When You Are Tokenizing a String That Was Entered by the User