[bug-recutils] [bug #41604] recfix: leading/trailing spaces

[Karl Berry]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41604>

                 Summary: recfix: leading/trailing spaces
                 Project: GNU recutils
            Submitted by: karl
            Submitted on: Sat 15 Feb 2014 09:19:29 AM PST
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

consider a record like this:

quantity: 4

Now, if I use a single space between the colon and the number, it is removed
from the output of recsel -P quantity.  Good.

But if I use a tab, the tab appears in the output.  That seems wrong.

If I use multiple spaces+tabs (quantity:   4), all of them after the first
appear.

Trailing spaces (quantity: 4   ) also appear.

I suggest that recfix check for multiple spaces, especially trailing ones.  It
would be nice if it could also fix it, but that looks like new functionality,
so I suppose it's fine to leave it for the user.  Not like it's hard.

(This is my last report for the present, yay :)





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