trimming ?

[Ken Ray]

Don't forget about regular expressions... with them, you can do it in one
go:

function trimText pText
    local returnVal
    get matchText(pText,"^ *([^ ].*[^ ]) *$",returnVal)
    return returnVal
end trimText

Have fun!

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: trimming ?


> Dave Cragg <dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > At 12:03 pm +0200 20/8/02, Sylvain Le Gourriérec wrote:
> >>how can I trim spaces of a textfield, i.e. convert any " my text "
> >>into "my text"?
> >>
> >>Does a function exist or do I need to build one?
> >
> > You need to build one.
> >
> > This is what I use:
> >
> > function trimText pText
> >   put cr & tab & space into tTrimChars
> >   repeat while char 1 of pText is in tTrimChars
> >     delete char 1 of pText
> >   end repeat
> >   repeat while char -1 of pText is in tTrimChars
> >     delete char -1 of pText
> >   end repeat
> >   return pText
> > end trimText
>
> Another variation I use:
>
> function trim theText
>    repeat for each word w in theText
>      put w & space after temp
>    end repeat
>    delete last char of temp
>    return temp
> end trim
>
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>
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