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From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: carlmarcos@tutanota.com,  help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tools for those working heavily with strings
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 13:20:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsiqhck0.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yt1GfBOinlGz84si@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de's message of "Sun, 24 Jul 2022 15:17:48 +0200")

tomas@tuxteam.de writes:

> On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 01:42:14PM +0200, carlmarcos@tutanota.com wrote:
>> Jul 24, 2022, 11:26 by tomas@tuxteam.de:
>> 
>> > On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 01:12:39PM +0200, carlmarcos--- via Users
>> > list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> >> I'd appreciate if emacs could provide a minimum set of functions
>> >> to manipulate list,
>> >> as string manipulations are of good use.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Why do you always refuse to read the docs?
>> >
>> >> What can be introduced, you think?
>> >>
>> >
>> > What is missing, from your point of view?
>> >
>> What can I use to test whether a string in composed of whitespace or is empty?
>
> Try (string-match-p "^[[:space:]]*$" your-string-here)

Or `string-empty-p'.

> If you want it to only match "horizontal white space" (i.e. no newlines,
> no vertical tabs), try :blank: instead.
>
> Cheers



  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-24 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-24  5:04 Tools for those working heavily with strings carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-24  5:11 ` Jean Louis
2022-07-24  5:17   ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-24  8:45     ` Jean Louis
2022-07-24  8:44   ` Jean Louis
2022-07-24 11:12     ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-24 11:26       ` tomas
2022-07-24 11:42         ` carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-24 13:11           ` Arash Esbati
2022-07-24 13:17           ` tomas
2022-07-24 13:20             ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2022-07-24 13:23               ` tomas
2022-07-24 14:45                 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-07-24 20:04           ` Jean Louis
2022-07-24 20:00       ` Jean Louis

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