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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug in some calls to split-string.
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:36:46 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2qdr5k1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878v11ekbn.fsf@gmail.com>

Jambunathan K writes:
 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
 > 
 > > Trimming leading and trailing whitespace is a generally useful
 > > function.
 > 
 > Org-mode's usage of `org-trim' gives this proposal 100+ upvotes.
 > 
 >     (defun org-trim (s)
 >       "Remove whitespace at beginning and end of string."
 >       (if (string-match "\\`[ \t\n\r]+" s) (setq s (replace-match "" t t s)))
 >       (if (string-match "[ \t\n\r]+\\'" s) (setq s (replace-match "" t t s)))
 >       s)

Gah.  Of course I should have used \` and \'.

org-trim probably ought to use \s- instead of the explicit character
class.  I would at least add NBSP (U+00A0) to that class.





  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-20  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-19 19:09 Bug in some calls to split-string Richard Stallman
2013-07-20  7:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-07-20  7:56   ` Jambunathan K
2013-07-20  8:36     ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2013-07-20 13:35   ` Richard Stallman

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