How to remove leading and trailing spaces from a string?

[Phil Davis]

Seems like I remember Ken also suggesting another solution which even I 
can understand:

function unpadded pText
   return word 1 to -1 of pText -- Ken's solution
end unpadded

At least I *think* it was Mr. Ray....

Phil


Sadhu Nadesan wrote:
> Howzit,
>
> I needed to do that and was about to (once again) reinvent the wheel, 
> but decided to use the Rev search engine instead, and came across this 
> handy regular expression function from Ken Ray, posted circa 2006.  
> Works great!  Thank you, Mr. Ray.
>
> Sadhu
>
> function trimWS pText
> -- Remove all leading and trailing whitespace characters.
> -- I.E., space, tab, carriage return, line feed, form feed.
>
>  return replaceText(pText,"(^\s+)|(\s+$)",empty)
>
> end trimWS

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