In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/10/2006
at 02:50 AM, Dave Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The panel can easily parse the command into 3 separate values, but
>there is no easy way for it to remove the leading spaces from in
>front of the 'D'.
That sounds like a case for pattern matching, but I agree that if you
can't get that then[1] iteration would at least do the job.
[1] I say pattern matching rather than regexen because the Unix syntax
for regular expressions is hideous and incomplete[2].
[2] It doesn't allow you to bind a name to a subpattern.
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