diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 17d5f8fe..5e35d631 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@ The git repositories are hosted at the following sites:
 ### Security
 ### Added
 
-* Added BACnet library itoa, ltoa, ultoa, dtoa, and utoa ASCII
-  functions for ease of printing formatted values. (#1157)
+* Added library specific ltrim, rtrim, and trim string functions. (#1159)
+* Added library specific itoa, ltoa, ultoa, dtoa, utoa, and general
+  print format with ASCII return functions. (#1157)
 * Added library specific string-to functions similar to stdlib.
   Added library specific string-to functions for BACnet primitives. (#1151)
 
diff --git a/src/bacnet/bacapp.c b/src/bacnet/bacapp.c
index 80fc3050..f5357ad7 100644
--- a/src/bacnet/bacapp.c
+++ b/src/bacnet/bacapp.c
@@ -4120,40 +4120,6 @@ bool bacapp_print_value(
 #endif
 
 #ifdef BACAPP_PRINT_ENABLED
-static char *ltrim(char *str, const char *trimmedchars)
-{
-    if (str[0] == 0) {
-        return str;
-    }
-    while (strchr(trimmedchars, *str)) {
-        str++;
-    }
-    return str;
-}
-
-static char *rtrim(char *str, const char *trimmedchars)
-{
-    char *end;
-
-    if (str[0] == 0) {
-        return str;
-    }
-    end = str + strlen(str) - 1;
-    while (strchr(trimmedchars, *end)) {
-        *end = 0;
-        if (end == str) {
-            break;
-        }
-        end--;
-    }
-    return str;
-}
-
-static char *trim(char *str, const char *trimmedchars)
-{
-    return ltrim(rtrim(str, trimmedchars), trimmedchars);
-}
-
 #if defined(BACAPP_WEEKLY_SCHEDULE)
 static bool
 parse_weeklyschedule(char *str, BACNET_APPLICATION_DATA_VALUE *value)
@@ -4183,7 +4149,7 @@ parse_weeklyschedule(char *str, BACNET_APPLICATION_DATA_VALUE *value)
 
     /* Parse the inner tag */
     chunk = strtok(str, ";");
-    chunk = ltrim(chunk, "(");
+    chunk = bacnet_ltrim(chunk, "(");
     if (false ==
         bacapp_parse_application_data(
             BACNET_APPLICATION_TAG_UNSIGNED_INT, chunk, &dummy_value)) {
@@ -4208,7 +4174,7 @@ parse_weeklyschedule(char *str, BACNET_APPLICATION_DATA_VALUE *value)
         }
 
         /* Extract the inner list of time-values */
-        chunk = rtrim(ltrim(chunk, "([ "), " ])");
+        chunk = bacnet_rtrim(bacnet_ltrim(chunk, "([ "), " ])");
 
         /* The list can be empty */
         if (chunk[0] != 0) {
@@ -4221,7 +4187,7 @@ parse_weeklyschedule(char *str, BACNET_APPLICATION_DATA_VALUE *value)
                     *comma = 0;
                 }
                 /* trim the time-value pair and find the delimiter space */
-                chunk = trim(chunk, " ");
+                chunk = bacnet_trim(chunk, " ");
                 space = strchr(chunk, ' ');
                 if (!space) {
                     /* malformed time-value pair */
@@ -4233,7 +4199,7 @@ parse_weeklyschedule(char *str, BACNET_APPLICATION_DATA_VALUE *value)
                 t = chunk;
                 /* value starts one byte after the space, and there can be */
                 /* multiple spaces */
-                chunk = ltrim(space + 1, " ");
+                chunk = bacnet_ltrim(space + 1, " ");
                 v = chunk;
 
                 /* Parse time */
diff --git a/src/bacnet/bacstr.c b/src/bacnet/bacstr.c
index c9c78c65..cd3a5802 100644
--- a/src/bacnet/bacstr.c
+++ b/src/bacnet/bacstr.c
@@ -1857,3 +1857,55 @@ char *bacnet_ultoa(unsigned long value, char *buffer, size_t size)
 {
     return bacnet_sprintf_to_ascii(buffer, size, "%lu", value);
 }
+
+/**
+ * @brief trim characters from the left side of a string
+ * @param str - string to trim
+ * @param trimmedchars - characters to trim from the string
+ * @return the trimmed string
+ */
+char *bacnet_ltrim(char *str, const char *trimmedchars)
+{
+    if (str[0] == 0) {
+        return str;
+    }
+    while (strchr(trimmedchars, *str)) {
+        str++;
+    }
+    return str;
+}
+
+/**
+ * @brief trim characters from the right side of a string
+ * @param str - string to trim
+ * @param trimmedchars - characters to trim from the string
+ * @return the trimmed string
+ */
+char *bacnet_rtrim(char *str, const char *trimmedchars)
+{
+    char *end;
+
+    if (str[0] == 0) {
+        return str;
+    }
+    end = str + strlen(str) - 1;
+    while (strchr(trimmedchars, *end)) {
+        *end = 0;
+        if (end == str) {
+            break;
+        }
+        end--;
+    }
+    return str;
+}
+
+/**
+ * @brief trim characters from the right side and left side of a string
+ * @param str - string to trim
+ * @param trimmedchars - characters to trim from the string
+ * @return the trimmed string
+ */
+char *bacnet_trim(char *str, const char *trimmedchars)
+{
+    return bacnet_ltrim(bacnet_rtrim(str, trimmedchars), trimmedchars);
+}
diff --git a/src/bacnet/bacstr.h b/src/bacnet/bacstr.h
index 2153cc1f..6ba5027f 100644
--- a/src/bacnet/bacstr.h
+++ b/src/bacnet/bacstr.h
@@ -219,6 +219,13 @@ BACNET_STACK_EXPORT
 char *
 bacnet_sprintf_to_ascii(char *buffer, size_t count, const char *format, ...);
 
+BACNET_STACK_EXPORT
+char *bacnet_ltrim(char *str, const char *trimmedchars);
+BACNET_STACK_EXPORT
+char *bacnet_rtrim(char *str, const char *trimmedchars);
+BACNET_STACK_EXPORT
+char *bacnet_trim(char *str, const char *trimmedchars);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif /* __cplusplus */