From: Lars Hansen <lists@soem.dk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: string-strip
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:20:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44970722.9080900@soem.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32964.128.165.123.239.1150741470.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov>
Stuart D. Herring wrote:
>>1. Allow newlines in STR.
>>2. Treat newlines as white space.
>>
>>
>
>Shouldn't it really be up to the syntax table? Or is this supposed to be
>so much in Lisp land that the buffer shouldn't matter?
>
At least newlines should be allowed.
(my-string-strip " foo\n ") => (args-out-of-range " foo\n" 8 9)
(my-string-strip " foo\nbar ") => " "
is not acceptable IMO.
>>3. Return nil when resulting string is empty.
>>
>>
>
>Why do we want to do that?
>
To do something like
(defun (str)
(setq str (string-strip str))
(if str
;; handle string
...
;; no input
...
>"trailing", of course.
>
:-)
>"length", of course.
>
>
:-o
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-19 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-16 8:07 string-strip Andreas Roehler
2006-06-19 7:42 ` string-strip Richard Stallman
2006-06-19 17:59 ` string-strip Lars Hansen
2006-06-19 18:24 ` string-strip Stuart D. Herring
2006-06-19 20:20 ` Lars Hansen [this message]
2006-06-19 20:23 ` string-strip Andreas Schwab
2006-06-19 22:04 ` string-strip Kim F. Storm
2006-06-19 23:19 ` string-strip Richard Stallman
2006-06-20 6:34 ` string-strip Lars Hansen
2006-06-20 17:55 ` string-strip Richard Stallman
2006-06-20 19:28 ` string-strip Andreas Roehler
2006-06-20 19:50 ` string-strip Nick Roberts
2006-06-20 22:03 ` string-strip Kim F. Storm
2006-06-20 22:25 ` string-strip Nick Roberts
2006-06-20 22:42 ` string-strip Johan Bockgård
2006-06-21 16:47 ` string-strip Lars Hansen
2006-06-22 9:15 ` string-strip Kim F. Storm
2006-06-22 11:21 ` string-strip Andreas Roehler
2006-06-22 15:48 ` string-strip Kim F. Storm
2006-06-28 11:52 ` string-strip Lars Hansen
2006-06-28 14:47 ` string-strip Juri Linkov
2006-06-29 13:00 ` string-strip Richard Stallman
2006-07-02 16:03 ` string-strip Stefan Monnier
2006-07-03 9:58 ` string-strip Lars Hansen
2006-07-06 22:22 ` string-strip Stefan Monnier
2006-07-07 19:31 ` string-strip Richard Stallman
2006-07-08 3:59 ` string-strip Stefan Monnier
2006-07-08 20:57 ` string-strip Richard Stallman
2006-09-29 7:41 ` string-strip Andreas Roehler
2006-09-29 14:22 ` string-strip Lars Hansen
2006-09-29 18:40 ` string-strip Andreas Roehler
2006-09-29 21:45 ` string-strip Richard Stallman
2006-11-24 15:02 ` string-strip Andreas Roehler
2006-11-25 6:58 ` string-strip Richard Stallman
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2006-06-20 10:26 string-strip Andreas Roehler
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