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Re: left-trim and right-trim for strings
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Oliver Scholz |
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Re: left-trim and right-trim for strings |
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Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:28:07 +0200 |
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Klaus Berndl <Klaus.Berndl@sdm.de> writes:
> left-trim: Removing any leading whitespace from a string.
> right-trim: Removing any trailing whitespace from a string.
>
> Are there such functions available in elisp or have i to write them
> for myself?
Probably rather a dirty trick, but you could abuse `split-string':
(car (split-string " Dies ist ein Test." "^[\n\t ]*"))
(car (split-string "Dies ist ein Test. " "[\n\t ]*$"))
-- Oliver
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