DEBLANK DEBLANK Remove trailing blanks from a string Usage The deblank function removes spaces at the end of a string when used with the syntax y = deblank(x) where x is a string, in which case, all of the extra spaces in x are stripped from the end of the string. Alternately, you can call deblank with a cell array of strings y = deblank(c) in which case each string in the cell array is deblanked.