You can try:
NSString *string = @" spaces in front and at the end ";
NSString *trimmedString = [string stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:
[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
The key here is whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet, from Apple doc :
Returns a character set containing only the whitespace characters space (U+0020) and tab (U+0009) and the newline and nextline characters (U+000A–U+000D, U+0085).
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