Re: trimming a string
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- Subject: [mg50866] Re: trimming a string
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:55:04 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
StringTrim[s_String] :=
StringJoin @@ (Characters[s] //. {" ", a___} :> {a} //. {a__, " "} :>
{a})
somestring = " Humpty Dumpty ";
StringTrim[somestring]
??
Regards
Jens
Akos Beleznay wrote:
>
> I would appreciate if somebody could show me a simple way of trimming a
> string. (I did it a hard way, but suspect an elegant solution.)
>
> Trim(a_string): returns a copy of a string without leading and trailing
> spaces.
>
> thanks for your help,
>
> Akos Beleznay
> Equitas Capital Advisors LLC
> 909 Poydras Street
> Suite 1850
> New Orleans, LA 70112
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> abeleznay at equitas-capital.com
>
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