How trim?

[Marielle Lange]

Why did I use matchtext and replace in my previous example.... Sorry  
I was leaving you to find the solution on your own (sorry, teacher  
here)... There was obviously an obvious shortcut to take.

put BTrim("   The cat sat under the mat   " ) into tResult

function BTrim pText
     get matchtext(pText, "(^[ \t]*(.*)[ \t]*$)", tFull, tPart)
     replace tFull with tPart in pText;
     return pText
end function

Best,
Marielle

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