On 08/05/2008, Michael Giroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The documentation may not make clear that all spaces are significant, > > but equally it does not say that leading and trailing spaces are > > ignored. > > > My expectation was that spaces were ignored. If this is not the case, > it would be handy to make that point clear in the docs. > > > > > Is there a reason that the parser did not trim the name parameter? > > > > > > > The parser does not trim any spaces. > > It does not know which parameters might need leading and trailing > > spaces, and which parameters could be trimmed. > > > > So it would have to trim all parameters, which might break some test plans. > > > OK, I can understand this from the parser point of view. How about > the functions themselves? Is it realistic to allow variable and > property names to contain leading and trailing spaces?
Why not? > Could the > function processors themselves (_setProperty for example) be modified > to trim the leading and trailing white space from a variable or > property names? > Of course they could. > > Michael > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
