> "Andrej Mitrovic" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > > > Nick Sabalausky Wrote: > >> "Andrej Mitrovic" <[email protected]> wrote in message > >> news:[email protected]... > >> > >> > E.g.: > >> > > >> > void main() > >> > { > >> > > >> > char[10] blue = "blue "; > >> > assert(blue == "blue"); > >> > > >> > } > >> > > >> > Obviously these two are different, but what function can I use to > >> > compare > >> > strings in situations where whitespace is the delimiter? > >> > >> assert(strip(blue) == "blue"); > >> > >> Is that what you need or did I misunderstand? > > > > Yup. blue[].strip (slice is needed). > > > > And here I was desperately trying to find the trim() function. Thanks! > > Yea, I keep trying to do trim(), too. Hard habit to break :)
That's one of those functions that is quite common among many languages but is often not called quite the same thing. So, if you're used to a particular name, and the language chose another, then you're constantly thrown off by it until you use it enough that it sticks. But if they'd picked the name that you're used to, then someone else would have been constantly thrown off instead, since they were used to languages/libraries that used the first name. So, you can't really win. - Jonathan M Davis
