Re: string-strip

[Lars Hansen]

Stuart D. Herring wrote:

>>1. Allow newlines in STR.
>>2. Treat newlines as white space.
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>Shouldn't it really be up to the syntax table?  Or is this supposed to be
>so much in Lisp land that the buffer shouldn't matter?
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At least newlines should be allowed.

(my-string-strip " foo\n ")    => (args-out-of-range " foo\n" 8 9)
(my-string-strip " foo\nbar ") => " "

is not acceptable IMO.

>>3. Return nil when resulting string is empty.
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>Why do we want to do that?
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To do something like

(defun (str)
  (setq str (string-strip str))
  (if str
      ;; handle string
      ...
    ;; no input
    ...

>"trailing", of course.  
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:-)

>"length", of course.
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:-o