How trim?

[Marcus van Houdt]

Hello,

With revolution this is even easier than Basic, all you need to do is:

put word 1 to -1 of "        The cat sat under the mat.         "

This will put "The cat sat under the mat." into message.

Regards,

Marcus

Software Developer
Runtime Revolution


> Sometimes inexperienced Rev programmers have to ask questions that 
> make them want to crawl under the table in shame because probably the 
> answer is idiotically simple. Here is such a question.
>
> If I have a string, say:-
>
> "   The cat sat under the mat   "
>
> - and I want to trim off the leading and following blanks to give:-
>
> "The cat sat on the mat"
>
> - how can I do this quickly in Transcript?
>
> In Basic, it is very simple. You can use the functions LTrim$, RTrim$ 
> or just Trim$ to lop off both sets of blanks.
>
> Thanks very much in advance to the individual who will surely give me 
> the answer in a flash.
> _______________________________________________
> use-revolution mailing list
> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your 
> subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>