Trim spaces from a field when selecting

Question

I'm trying to remove spaces from a field (before and after the name)

SELECT TRIM(name) AS new_name FROM users;

But it doesn't do anything, and as I have looked at MySQL dev pages, the query looks right. Am I missing anything?

Have also tried both LTRIM & RTRIM but same result.

Answer 1

Ok, I placed a dot before and after each row, than used

SUBSTRING_INDEX

to extract the name only from the result, that way I got what I needed. Thanks everybody for your answers.