Another set of very handy functions that in Java are provided by libraries such as Guava or Apache Commons and in C# are built in, are `String.isNullOrEmpty(aStr)` and `String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(aStr)`.
Would be nice if they ES Strings had them too. On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:15 AM John-David Dalton < [email protected]> wrote: > In the wild I've seen ltrim rtrim which are variations of trimLeft and > trimRight and padLeft padRight or lpad, rpad for other forms. For stings I > think of left and right as leading and trailing and think of start and end > as more position indicators of like slice or a range. > > > -JDD > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Dmitry Soshnikov < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> OK, it was added to the agenda for the next meeting (will be presented >> by Sebastian Markbage), so can be discussed in detail. I agree that >> "start", and "end" are now probably better fit (because of i18n, and a >> strong correlation with "startsWith" and "endsWith"). We can probably >> ignore the de-facto shipped in browsers, they will just implement in >> addition `trimStart` and `trimEnd`, and eventually deprecate the "right" >> and "left". >> >> Dmitry >> >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Claude Pache <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> > Le 21 juil. 2015 à 08:28, Jordan Harband <[email protected]> a écrit : >>> > >>> > On the contrary -"left" always begins at index 0 - "start" is >>> sometimes index 0, sometimes index (length - 1). >>> >>> Counter-example: ES6 methods `String#startsWith` and `String#endsWith` >>> are named correctly. >>> >>> > I think "left" and "right" are the right names; "start" and "end" >>> would require unicode bidirectional stuff. >>> >>> No, because characters in Unicode strings are ordered logically, not >>> visually. >>> >>> —Claude >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> es-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> >> > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > -- Best regards, Behrang Saeedzadeh
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