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From: Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: left-trim and right-trim for strings
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:28:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3znu9gd2w.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uit0xm69z.fsf@sdm.de

Klaus Berndl <Klaus.Berndl@sdm.de> writes:

> left-trim: Removing any leading whitespace from a string.
> right-trim: Removing any trailing whitespace from a string.
>
> Are there such functions available in elisp or have i to write them
> for myself?

Probably rather a dirty trick, but you could abuse `split-string':

(car (split-string "    Dies ist ein Test." "^[\n\t ]*"))
(car (split-string "Dies ist ein Test.    " "[\n\t ]*$"))

    -- Oliver

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-23 11:28 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 [this message]
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
2002-09-24  5:24         ` Benjamin Lewis
2002-09-24 13:09         ` Klaus Berndl

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