Re: Re: trimming a string
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- Subject: [mg50883] Re: [mg50873] Re: [mg50861] trimming a string
- From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 05:31:44 -0400 (EDT)
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s=" abcdefgh ";
StringJoin[Characters@s//.{{" "..,x__}->{x},{x__," "..}->{x}}]//FullForm
"abcdefgh"
or
StringJoin@Flatten[Split@Characters@s/.{{" "..},x__}->{x}/.{x__,{" "..}}->{x}]//FullForm
"abcdefgh"
Bobby
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:55:13 -0400 (EDT), David Park <djmp at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Akos,
>
> One method...
>
> trimString[s_String] :=
> Module[{ss = s},
> While[First@Characters[ss] === " ", ss = StringDrop[ss, 1]];
> While[Last@Characters[ss] === " ", ss = StringDrop[ss, -1]];
> ss]
>
> s = " abcdefgh ";
> trimString[s] // FullForm
> "abcdefgh"
>
> David Park
> djmp at earthlink.net
> http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
>
>
> From: Akos Beleznay [mailto:abeleznay at equitas-capital.com]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>
> 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
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