Thanks Eli! -- Chad Albers
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote: > About two weeks ago, Chad Albers wrote: >> Thanks Eli. I'm happy you recognize the issue. >> >> I did write my own string-trim-both function using Racket's regexp as >> follows: >> >> (define (string-trim-both string) >> (cadr (regexp-match #px"[\\s]*(\\S+)[\\s]*" string))) > > Note that this doesn't work right: > > -> (string-trim-both " str ing ") > "str" > > >> May not be the best, but it works. Even though it's easy to >> implement, my issue was why it wasn't included. I guess I'm just >> used to such utilities functions being provided for free in the >> language I usually work in: Ruby. I was surprised that I had to >> either 1) roll my own, or 2) require the srfi-13. > > Sidenote: `string-trim', and several additional simplified string > functions is now in the repository and will be included in the next > release. > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
