// Removes leading and trailing spaces from the passed string. Also removes
// consecutive spaces and replaces it with one space. If something besides
// a string is passed in (null, custom object, etc.) then return the input.
function trim(inputString) {
	if (typeof inputString != "string") { return inputString; }
	var retValue = inputString;
	var ch = retValue.substring(0, 1);
	while (ch == " " || ch == "\n" || ch == "\t") { // Check for spaces at the beginning of the string
		retValue = retValue.substring(1, retValue.length);
		ch = retValue.substring(0, 1);
	}
	ch = retValue.substring(retValue.length-1, retValue.length);
	while (ch == " " || ch == "\n" || ch == "\t") { // Check for spaces at the end of the string
		retValue = retValue.substring(0, retValue.length-1);
		ch = retValue.substring(retValue.length-1, retValue.length);
	}
	while (retValue.indexOf("  ") != -1) { // Note that there are two spaces in the string - look for multiple spaces within the string
		retValue = retValue.substring(0, retValue.indexOf("  ")) + retValue.substring(retValue.indexOf("  ")+1, retValue.length); // Again, there are two spaces in each of the strings
	}
	return retValue; // Return the trimmed string back to the user
} // Ends the "trim" function