Trimming blanks from the ends of strings

This is pretty mundane, but I much appreciate the help. I have character
variables that I have read in from 40-character-wide fields. I want to remove
the spaces from the ends so I can use them right justified (adj=1) as labels on
the vertical axis of a graph. 

Thanks.
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