LTRIM, RTRIM

Kay C Lan lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 08:42:15 EST 2005


On 12/14/05, Jerry Muelver <jerry at hytext.com> wrote:
>
> Are there in RF functions complementary to BASIC's RTRIM and LTRIM
> functions? Or, is this kind of chunk manipulation a "do it yourself"
> project?
>
> I have
> .title, Going Home
>
> And I want get item 2 and strip the leading space. I know I can check
> character 1 and delete it if it's a space, but thought I'd try to find a
> LTRIM function first.



Bob Warren on 22 Oct 05 asked the a similar question and got some excellent
responses.

If you just want to trim both leading and trailing spaces then the short
answer was given by Marcus van Houdt,


put word 1 to -1 of item 2 of " title,   Going Home        "

This will put "Going Home" into message.

If you actually want to only trim the leading spaces or just the trailing
spaces then I suggest you search the archive with  Eric's Resource Picker
for the twenty odd responses Bob got for his orginal question - very
instructional. Bascially there is no Rev equivalent of LTRIM and RTRIM.

HTH
PS I Can't believe I've got to a question before someone else has answered -
everyone else must discussing [OT] ;-)



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