diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 780f851..c965949 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ A format option (`format=x`) selects the input parser with which Sqawk will pars
 
 | Format | Additional options | Examples | Comment |
 |--------|--------------------|--------- |---------|
-| `awk` or `raw` | `FS`, `RS` | `RS=\n`, `FS=:` | The default input parser. Splits input into records then fields using regular expressions. The options `FS` and `RS` work the same as -FS and -RS respectively but only apply to one file. |
+| `awk` or `raw` | `FS`, `RS`, `trim` | `RS=\n`, `FS=:`, `trim=left` | The default input parser. Splits input into records then fields using regular expressions. The options `FS` and `RS` work the same as -FS and -RS respectively but only apply to one file. The option `trim` removes whitespace at the beginning of each line of input (`trim=left`), at its end (`trim=right`) or both (`trim=both`). |
 | `csv`, `csv2`, `csvalt` | `csvsep`, `csvquote` | `format=csv csvsep=, 'csvquote="'` | Parse the input as CSV. Using `format=csv2` or `format=csvalt` enables [alternate mode](http://core.tcl.tk/tcllib/doc/trunk/embedded/www/tcllib/files/modules/csv/csv.html#section3) for parsing CSV files exported by Microsoft Excel. `csvsep` specifies the field separator; it defaults to `,`. `csvquote` selects what characters fields that themselves contain the separator are quotes with; it defaults to `"`. Note that only some characters can be used as `csvquote`. |
 
 # More examples
@@ -97,6 +97,24 @@ A format option (`format=x`) selects the input parser with which Sqawk will pars
 
     sqawk -1 'select a1 from a order by random()' < file
 
+## Pretty-print a table
+
+    ps | sqawk -output table 'select a1,a2,a3,a4,a5 from a' trim=left
+
+### Sample output
+
+```
+┌─────┬─────┬────────┬───────────────┐
+│ PID │ TTY │  TIME  │      CMD      │
+├─────┼─────┼────────┼───────────────┤
+│11476│pts/3│00:00:00│       ps      │
+├─────┼─────┼────────┼───────────────┤
+│11477│pts/3│00:00:00│tclkit-8.6.3-mk│
+├─────┼─────┼────────┼───────────────┤
+│20583│pts/3│00:00:02│      zsh      │
+└─────┴─────┴────────┴───────────────┘
+```
+
 ## Find duplicate lines
 
 Print them and how many times they are repeated.
diff --git a/lib/parsers/awk.tcl b/lib/parsers/awk.tcl
index ae6294e..4509090 100644
--- a/lib/parsers/awk.tcl
+++ b/lib/parsers/awk.tcl
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ namespace eval ::sqawk::parsers::awk {
         FS {}
         RS {}
         merge {}
+        trim {}
     }
 }
 
@@ -127,6 +128,16 @@ proc ::sqawk::parsers::awk::splitmerge {str regexp mergeRanges} {
     return $fields
 }
 
+# Trim the contents of the variable "record".
+proc ::sqawk::parsers::awk::trim-record mode {
+    upvar 1 record record
+    set record [switch -exact -- $mode {
+        both { string trim $record }
+        left { string trimleft $record }
+        right { string trimright $record }
+        default { error "unknown more: \"$mode\"" }
+    }]
+}
 
 # Convert raw text data into a list of database rows using regular
 # expressions.
@@ -135,6 +146,7 @@ proc ::sqawk::parsers::awk::parse {data options} {
     set RS [dict get $options RS]
     set FS [dict get $options FS]
     set mergeRanges [dict get $options merge]
+    set trim [dict get $options trim]
 
     # Split the raw data into records.
     set records [::textutil::splitx $data $RS]
@@ -144,9 +156,15 @@ proc ::sqawk::parsers::awk::parse {data options} {
         set records [lrange $records 0 end-1]
     }
 
+
     # Split records into fields.
     set rows {}
-    if {$mergeRanges ne {}} {
+    if {$mergeRanges eq {}} {
+        foreach record $records {
+            ::sqawk::parsers::awk::trim-record $trim
+            lappend rows [list $record {*}[::textutil::splitx $record $FS]]
+        }
+    } else {
         # Allow both the {1-2,3-4,5-6} and the {1 2 3 4 5 6} syntax for the
         # "merge" option.
         set rangeRegexp {[0-9]+-[0-9]+}
@@ -155,13 +173,10 @@ proc ::sqawk::parsers::awk::parse {data options} {
             set mergeRanges [string map {- { } , { }} $mergeRanges]
         }
         foreach record $records {
+            ::sqawk::parsers::awk::trim-record $trim
             lappend rows [list $record {*}[::sqawk::parsers::awk::splitmerge \
                     $record $FS $mergeRanges]]
         }
-    } else {
-        foreach record $records {
-            lappend rows [list $record {*}[::textutil::splitx $record $FS]]
-        }
     }
 
     return $rows
diff --git a/sqawk-dev.tcl b/sqawk-dev.tcl
index 7f6c827..be87a0d 100755
--- a/sqawk-dev.tcl
+++ b/sqawk-dev.tcl
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ package require sqlite3
 package require textutil
 
 namespace eval ::sqawk {
-    variable version 0.12.0
+    variable version 0.13.0
 }
 
 interp alias {} ::source+ {} ::source