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From: Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: string func to use in .emacs
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:21:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ptd8gld8.fsf@tulip.whu.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1300.1075012227.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On 25 Jan 2004 08:31:30 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com>
>> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:11:15 -0500
>> 
>> I'm working on my .emacs file and would like to know if there is any
>> string func ready, such as string trimming, for use in .emacs. 

> What is ``string trimming'', exactly?  What API do you have in mind?
> It's hard to give you a good answer without knowing that much, since
> string trimming has more than one possible meaning.

> Likewise for the other string functions you need--please spell out the
> details.

What I am looking for is like this:

input    := "Emacs "
output   := "Emacs"    

The trailing blank space is trimmed.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-25 14:21 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 [this message]
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

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