On 9/28/04 2:55 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

function trim what
  local tText
  get matchText(what,"(?s)\s*(\S.*\S)\s*",tText)
  return tText
end trim

Being somewhat grep-challenged, could you explain more what the above does? Is there a difference between that and this:


  put word 1 to -1 of tText into tText

That's my standard way of removing leading and trailing white space. My way doesn't remove duplicate spaces between words, however.

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