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Write a programme to compare a two strings?
What if I want to ignore leading and trailing white spaces in the strings?
You can use the `trim()` method to remove leading and trailing white spaces before making the comparison. Here's an updated version of the code:

```
public static boolean compareTrimmedStrings(String str1, String str2) {
    return str1.trim().equals(str2.trim());
}
```