Hi Sadu, If it is just leading and trailing chars of the entire string of words or items or..., you can use:
Put word 1 to -1 of tString into tString. If it's a string of items use item 1 to -1... This removes spaces and other "non-word" chars before word 1 and after word -1. And it's quick. Aloha from Hawaii Jim Bufalini > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:use-revolution- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Sadhu Nadesan > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: How to remove leading and trailing spaces from a string? > > Howzit, > > I needed to do that and was about to (once again) reinvent the wheel, > but decided to use the Rev search engine instead, and came across this > handy regular expression function from Ken Ray, posted circa 2006. > Works great! Thank you, Mr. Ray. > > Sadhu > > function trimWS pText > -- Remove all leading and trailing whitespace characters. > -- I.E., space, tab, carriage return, line feed, form feed. > > return replaceText(pText,"(^\s+)|(\s+$)",empty) > > end trimWS > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
