trimming ?

Rob Cozens rcozens at pon.net
Wed Aug 21 09:42:01 EDT 2002


>>If you're simultaneously stripping leading AND trailing spaces on a
>>single line of text, can't you just use "get word 1 to -1 of
>>theText"?
>
>Nice one!
>
>I guess I'm ruled by habit. However, by having a line such as:
>
>put cr & tab & space into tTrimChars

Thanks, Dave,

Then again, you are checking for tabs as well as spaces, and Jacque 
is eliminating multiple spaces between all words.

This just struck me as perhaps the best answer to the original problem.
-- 

Rob Cozens
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