st: deleting spaces in a string file

[Sharooon <treeshar@yahoo.com>]

I have a string file with entries such as:

" davis"
"davis"
"davis "
" davis "

which stata is recognizing as different values, what I'd like to do is trim the spaces and have them all appear as 

"davis"

How can I do that? 


      

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