diff --git a/config/docs.cfg b/config/docs.cfg
index b1e3e33b..07cf3f45 100644
--- a/config/docs.cfg
+++ b/config/docs.cfg
@@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ docargument [N] [the index of the word] [] [0];
 docexample [echo (at "zero one two three" 2)] [output: two];
 docident [break] [Aborts a loop created with a 'loop', 'looplist' or 'while' command.];
 docexample [loop i 10 [ if (= $i 4) [ break ]; echo $i]] [output: 0 1 2 3];
+docident [breakparse] [Breaks out of a parsestring loop.];
+docremark [Important: This command should only be used within the 3rd argument (the cubescript to execute) of parsestring.];
 docident [c] [Adds color to a string.];
 docargument [N] [color id] [0 min, 9 max] [0];
 docexample [echo (c 3)Hello (c 0)world!] [Output: a red "Hello" and a green "world!"];
@@ -309,6 +311,16 @@ docexample [echo (modf 7.5 12.5)] [Output: 7.5];
 docexample [echo (modf 17.5 12.5)] [Output: 5.0];
 docident [numargs] [The number of arguments passed to the current alias];
 docargument [V] [numargs] [ read-only];
+docident [parsestring] [Loops through every character in the given string and executes the given block of cubescript on each iteration.];
+docargument [S] [string] [string to parse] [0];
+docargument [A] [string] [name of alias to use as iterator] [0];
+docargument [C] [string] [cubescript to execute on each iteration] [0];
+docargument [B] [integer] [non-zero to force backwards parse] [0];
+docremark [Important: A secondary iterator alias (prefixed with a double underscore "__") is automatically created before each iteration that contains the character position data.];
+docexample [parsestring "Hello world" iter [echo $iter]] [Uses echo on every character in the string: "Hello world"];
+docexample [parsestring "Hello world" iter [echo (concatword "Char #" $__iter ": " $iter)]] [Uses echo on every character in the string: "Hello world" --- Also outputs the position of each character in the string.];
+docexample [backwardsstring = []; parsestring "This will look interesting backwards." iter [backwardsstring = (concatword $backwardsstring $iter); if (= $__iter 0) [echo $backwardsstring]] 1] [Outputs: ".sdrawkcab gnitseretni kool lliw sihT"];
+docexample [parsestring "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" iter [if (> $__iter 4) breakparse [echo $iter]]] [Example usage of the breakparse command. Uses echo on characters a through e, then breaks out of the parse.];
 docident [persistidents] [Controls whether aliases defined afterwards will be saved (1) or not (0). This option is useful to keep saved.cfg free from unneeded clutter.];
 docargument [B] [control option] [1...persistent, 0...not persistent] [0];
 docexample [persistidents 0; foo = [ echo "bar"]] [foo will not be saved and has to be redefined when restarting AC.];
@@ -397,6 +409,12 @@ docexample [echo (tolower HELLO)] [Output: hello];
 docident [toupper] [Converts a string to all uppercase characters.];
 docargument [S] [a string] [] [0];
 docexample [echo (toupper hello)] [Output: HELLO];
+docident [trimAllUnnecessaryWhitespace] [Removes all unnecessary leading and trailing whitespace characters from the given string.];
+docargument [S] [string] [string to modify] [0];
+docexample [echo (trimAllUnnecessaryWhitespace " H e ll o w o r l d ")] [Outputs: "H e ll o w o r l d"];
+docident [trimAllWhitespace] [Removes all whitespace characters from the given string.];
+docargument [S] [string] [string to modify] [0];
+docexample [echo (trimAllWhitespace " H e ll o w o r l d ")] [Outputs: Helloworld];
 docident [while] [Loops the specified body while the condition evaluates to true.];
 docargument [cond] [the condition] [the code evaluated before each iteration] [0];
 docargument [body] [the body to execute on each iteration] [] [0];
diff --git a/config/parsestring.cfg b/config/parsestring.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1d6b1890
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/parsestring.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+const breakparse [ parsebreak = 1 ]
+
+const doparse [
+  parselen = (strlen $strtoparse)
+  loop dpl $parselen [
+    if $parsebreak break [
+      if $parsebackwards [
+        $charcontainer = (substr $strtoparse (- (- $parselen $dpl) 1) 1)
+        (format __%1 $charcontainer) = (- (- $parselen $dpl) 1)
+      ] [
+        $charcontainer = (substr $strtoparse $dpl 1)
+        (format __%1 $charcontainer) = $dpl
+      ]
+      execute $parsecode
+    ]
+  ]
+]
+
+const parsestring [
+  if (> $numargs 2) [
+    strtoparse = $arg1
+    charcontainer = $arg2
+    parsecode = $arg3
+    if (> $numargs 3) [
+      parsebackwards = $arg4
+    ] [ parsebackwards = 0 ]
+    parsebreak = 0
+    doparse
+  ]
+]
+
+// make helpful consts for use with (testchar)
+const CHARACTERTESTS [ISDIGIT ISALPHA ISALNUM ISLOWERCASE ISUPPERCASE ISCHAR ISPUNCT ISWHITESPACE]
+loop cel (listlen $CHARACTERTESTS) [
+  const (at $CHARACTERTESTS $cel) $cel
+  addListOnQuit (at $CHARACTERTESTS $cel)
+]
+
+// trimAllUnnecessaryWhitespace - Returns a modified string after removing any unnecessary leading and trailing whitespace from the original.
+const trimAllUnnecessaryWhitespace [
+  strtotrim = $arg1
+  forceinit [charsbegin charsend] -1
+  parsestring $strtotrim tch [
+    if (! (testchar $tch $ISWHITESPACE)) [
+      charsbegin = $__tch
+      breakparse
+    ]
+  ]
+  parsestring $strtotrim thc [
+    if (! (testchar $thc $ISWHITESPACE)) [
+      charsend = $__thc
+      breakparse
+    ]
+  ] 1
+  if (&& (&& (!= $charsbegin -1) (!= $charsend -1)) (!= $charsbegin $charsend)) [
+    return (substr $strtotrim $charsbegin (- (+ $charsend 1) $charsbegin))
+  ] [ return $strtotrim ]
+]
+// trimAllWhitespace - Returns a modified string after removing any whitespace characters from the original.
+const trimAllWhitespace [
+  strtotrim = $arg1
+  trimmedstr = []
+  parsestring $strtotrim twh [
+    if (! (testchar $twh $ISWHITESPACE)) [
+      trimmedstr = (concatword $trimmedstr $twh)
+    ]
+  ]
+  return $trimmedstr
+]
+
+addListOnQuit [parsebreak parselen strtoparse parsebackwards charcontainer dpl parsecode cel strtotrim charsbegin charsend tch __tch thc __thc twh trimmedstr]
diff --git a/config/scripts.cfg b/config/scripts.cfg
index 40854333..647a7c6d 100644
--- a/config/scripts.cfg
+++ b/config/scripts.cfg
@@ -477,6 +477,7 @@ const customclaimadminscript [
 // Execute other .cfgs/scripts.
 run on_quit
 run mdarray
+run parsestring
 run dyngamma
 run survival
 run autosave