From: Klaus Berndl <Klaus.Berndl@sdm.de>
Subject: Re: left-trim and right-trim for strings
Date: 23 Sep 2002 12:02:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uelblm3aq.fsf@sdm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3znu9gd2w.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Oliver Scholz wrote:
> 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 ]*$"))
Dirty but also charming :-)
I think i will use it.
Thanks,
Klaus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-23 10:02 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 [this message]
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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