当你想要删除所有类型的空白时(基于这个SO答案)的正确方法是:

extension String {
    var stringByRemovingWhitespaces: String {
        let components = componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet(.whitespaceCharacterSet())
        return components.joinWithSeparator("")
    }
}

Swift 3.0+ (3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0)

extension String {
    func removingWhitespaces() -> String {
        return components(separatedBy: .whitespaces).joined()
    }
}

EDIT

这个答案是在问题是关于删除所有空白时发布的，问题被编辑为只提到前导空白。如果你只想删除前导空白，请使用以下方法:

extension String {
    func removingLeadingSpaces() -> String {
        guard let index = firstIndex(where: { !CharacterSet(charactersIn: String($0)).isSubset(of: .whitespaces) }) else {
            return self
        }
        return String(self[index...])
    }
}

Swift 3版本

  //This function trim only white space:
   func trim() -> String
        {
            return self.trimmingCharacters(in: CharacterSet.whitespaces)
        }
    //This function trim whitespeaces and new line that you enter:
     func trimWhiteSpaceAndNewLine() -> String
        {
            return self.trimmingCharacters(in: CharacterSet.whitespacesAndNewlines)
        }

斯威夫特4

使用正则表达式的最佳情况:

" this is    wrong contained teee xt     "
    .replacingOccurrences(of: "^\\s+|\\s+|\\s+$", 
                          with: "", 
                          options: .regularExpression)

// thisiswrongcontainedteeext

在Swift 4修剪空白

let strFirstName = txtFirstName.text?.trimmingCharacters(in: 
 CharacterSet.whitespaces)

如果你想要从前面(和后面)而不是中间删除空格，你应该使用stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet

    let dirtyString   = " First Word "
    let cleanString = dirtyString.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceCharacterSet())

如果你想从字符串的任何地方删除空格，那么你可能需要查看stringbyreplacement…

这个String扩展删除了字符串中的所有空格，而不仅仅是尾随空格…

 extension String {
    func replace(string:String, replacement:String) -> String {
        return self.replacingOccurrences(of: string, with: replacement, options: NSString.CompareOptions.literal, range: nil)
    }

    func removeWhitespace() -> String {
        return self.replace(string: " ", replacement: "")
    }
  }

例子:

let string = "The quick brown dog jumps over the foxy lady."
let result = string.removeWhitespace() // Thequickbrowndogjumpsoverthefoxylady.