Selecting text using REGEX

[Alex Rice]

On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 06:48  PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> Interesting... my regEx version of Trim was this:
>
> function Trim what
>   local tText
>   get matchText(what,"(?s)\s*(\S.*\S)\s*",tText)
>   return tText
> end Trim

Beware this function fails for single-character-with-whitespace strings 
like " s" and " 9 ". By changing the regex to "(?s)\s*(\S.*\S?)\s*" and 
checking the result of matchText(), we can make it safer. But it still 
was failing some of my tests- I can't remember which strings though.


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