Daniel Shahaf wrote on Tue, 17 Dec 2019 01:55 +00:00:
> I suppose that simply trying to repeatedly s/\s+\S+$// might work well
> enough? That is:
In English: remove all non-whitespaces at the end of the string, then
remove all trailing whitespace.
> data = line[len('--- '):].rstrip('\n')
> need_confirmation = False
> while len(data) > 0:
> if exists(data):
> break
> else:
> data =~ s/\s+\S+$//;
> need_confirmation = True
> else:
> raise Exception("{!r} does not exist".format(line[4:]))
> if need_confirmation:
> prompt_for_confirmation(data)
>
