On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 05:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:


For an easy "trim" function that is just as fast as regex, try this:

return word 1 to -1 of pText

In a test using text with 1000 leading white space characters and 500 trailing characters, the difference between the regex method and the above one-liner was one millisecond.

Nice one- thanks Jacqueline. That's one's so concise it's hardly worth putting it into a separate function. No wonder transcript doesn't have a trim() function built in :-)


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