From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug in some calls to split-string. Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:36:46 +0900 Message-ID: <87d2qdr5k1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87hafpr8f0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <878v11ekbn.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374309417 6156 80.91.229.3 (20 Jul 2013 08:36:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 08:36:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 20 10:36:58 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V0Sev-0005sI-Qo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:36:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34230 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0Sev-0005jM-28 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 04:36:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53647) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0Ser-0005j5-OZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 04:36:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0Seq-0000VR-Rx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 04:36:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:55877) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V0Seq-0000SZ-Ij; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 04:36:52 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE5D970938; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:36:47 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E323715805A; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:36:46 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <878v11ekbn.fsf@gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:162034 Archived-At: Jambunathan K writes: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > > > Trimming leading and trailing whitespace is a generally useful > > function. > > Org-mode's usage of `org-trim' gives this proposal 100+ upvotes. > > (defun org-trim (s) > "Remove whitespace at beginning and end of string." > (if (string-match "\\`[ \t\n\r]+" s) (setq s (replace-match "" t t s))) > (if (string-match "[ \t\n\r]+\\'" s) (setq s (replace-match "" t t s))) > s) Gah. Of course I should have used \` and \'. org-trim probably ought to use \s- instead of the explicit character class. I would at least add NBSP (U+00A0) to that class.