From: maierh@myself.com
Subject: Re: left-trim and right-trim for strings
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:11:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uelbk3rbe.fsf@myself.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5l3cs0o88m.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu
"Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> writes:
> How ironic. You used `split-string' just where `string-match' makes
> more sense and then use `string-match' where `split-string' is just what
> you need:
> Why not
>
> (if (string-match "\\`[\n\t ]+" str) (substring str (match-end 0)) str) ?
> or
> (if (string-match "\\`[\n\t ]*" str) (substring str (match-end 0))) ?
>
Since emacs-21 we have too `replace-regexp-in-string'. Personally, I
like it very much.
,----
| (replace-regexp-in-string "^ *" "" " This is a string. ")
`----
Harald
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-24 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-23 8:58 left-trim and right-trim for strings Klaus Berndl
2002-09-23 9:30 ` Jesper Harder
2002-09-23 11:28 ` Oliver Scholz
2002-09-23 10:02 ` Klaus Berndl
2002-09-23 10:19 ` Klaus Berndl
2002-09-23 18:45 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-09-24 5:11 ` maierh [this message]
2002-09-24 5:24 ` Benjamin Lewis
2002-09-24 13:09 ` Klaus Berndl
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