From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: string func to use in .emacs
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:59:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6480-Sun25Jan2004195942+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ptd8gld8.fsf@tulip.whu.ca> (message from Peter Wu on Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:21:07 -0500)
> From: Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:21:07 -0500
>
> What I am looking for is like this:
>
> input := "Emacs "
> output := "Emacs"
>
> The trailing blank space is trimmed.
Try this:
(let ((i (string-match " +\\'" input)))
(when i
(setq output (substring input 0 i))))
(You may wish to replace `output' with `input', so that it is
destructively trimmed.)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-25 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-25 5:11 string func to use in .emacs Peter Wu
2004-01-25 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1300.1075012227.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-25 14:21 ` Peter Wu
2004-01-25 17:45 ` Mario Domgörgen
2004-01-26 0:26 ` Peter Wu
2004-01-26 0:44 ` Jesper Harder
2004-01-26 3:16 ` Peter Wu
2004-01-26 3:57 ` Jesper Harder
2004-01-26 14:55 ` Peter Wu
2004-01-26 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-25 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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