How trim?

[Bob Warren]

On 23 Oct 2005, Dave Cragg (<dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk>) wrote:

 >Is there a requirement for the solutions to be one liners?

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No, but it would be nice. Originally, I looked in the Help for 
equivalents to the simple Basic functions e.g. LTrim$(MyString$), 
RTrim$(MyString$), and Trim$(MyString$) and was surprised not to be able 
to find them.

In VB, I use these functions all the time, so I am a bit mystified at 
the apparent lack of desperate need for simple-syntax built-in functions 
on the part of experienced RR programmers. I certainly need this very 
much in the RR stack I am writing at the moment.

Who knows, we might see statements like the following in future versions 
of RR:

put the LTrim(32,202,160) of myVar1 into myVar2
put the Trim(32) of myVar1 into field "Label1"

In the scheme above, ANY characters could be trimmed, not just the 
whitespace.

Of course, such build-in functions would take into consideration the 
interesting points (related to speeed, accuracy, etc.) that you have all 
so enthusiastically raised.

Bob