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I found myself using the character specific String.Trim(params char[] trimChars) overload to remove some carriage returns and tabs when I realized I was reinventing the wheel again.  Not content with the basic Trim()'s intellisense ("Removes all occurrences of white space characters from the beginning and end of this instance") I dove into Reflector: public string Trim() { return this.TrimHelper(WhitespaceChars, 2); } TrimHelper is fairly obvious - it does the actual trimming of the characters. The WhitespaceChars array (which is also used by TryParse() and some of the other TrimXxx() methods) is set in the String static constructor: static String() { Empty = ""; WhitespaceChars = new char[] { '\t', '\n', '\v', '\f', '\r', ' ', '\x0085', '\x00a0', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', '​', '\u2028', '\u2029', '　', '' }; } Not sure what some of those non-printable characters are, but I'm satisfied...