Generic string-strip still missing

Generic string-strip still missing

[Andreas Röhler]

Hi everybody,

whilst Emacs comes with a comment-string-strip --see def below-- a 
generic form is seems still missing.

 From newcomment.el:

(defun comment-string-strip (str beforep afterp)
   "Strip STR of any leading (if BEFOREP) and/or trailing (if AFTERP) 
space."
   (string-match (concat "\\`" (if beforep "\\s-*")
             "\\(.*?\\)" (if afterp "\\s-*\n?")
             "\\'") str)
   (match-string 1 str))

Making the matcher customizable resp. to hand over as arg, seems all 
what's needed.

Thanks,

Andreas

Re: Generic string-strip still missing

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:

> whilst Emacs comes with a comment-string-strip --see def below-- a
> generic form is seems still missing.

See `string-trim*' and `string-remove*'.

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Re: Generic string-strip still missing

[Andreas Röhler]

On 25.03.2016 19:47, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:
>
>> whilst Emacs comes with a comment-string-strip --see def below-- a
>> generic form is seems still missing.
> See `string-trim*' and `string-remove*'.
>

Thanks, found it in subr-x.el

emacs -Q M-x apropos RET string-trim RET seems not to know about it.