How to delete trailing spaces in a line

Mark Smith mark at maseurope.net
Tue Oct 24 12:58:03 EDT 2006


I son't know about the rest of it, but in the code below, you're  
stripping the line endings of any line that ends with a space, as  
well as stripping the space, so you need to replace the space & cr  
with cr, if you see what I mean...

put space & "+" & return into vStringToStrip
replaceText(vMyContainer,vStringToStrip,cr)

Best,

Mark

On 24 Oct 2006, at 18:49, Mark Powell wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, Mark.  However, it must be at the end of line
> only.  In addition, I need to do the operation on a container in one
> call, preferably using replaceText.  I am having problems with
>
> ...
> put space & "+" & return into vStringToStrip
> replaceText(vMyContainer,vStringToStrip,empty)
> ...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark  
> Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:03 AM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: How to delete trailing spaces in a line
>
> put word 1 to -1 of tLine into tLine - though this will also remove
> spaces at the beginning of the line.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
> On 24 Oct 2006, at 17:10, Mark Powell wrote:
>
>> I want to delete all spaces at the end of a line, be they a single
>> space or a couple dozen.  What is the best way to do this?
>>
>> Mark Powell
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