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> Also `:!start` to imply `:end` unless `:!end` (which in turn > implies `:start` unless `:!end`)? > > I’d like not to have to type `.trim(:start)` when I could just do > `.ltrim` though. So what would .ltrim do with this? " בָּרוּךְ שֵׁם כְּבוֹד מַלְכוּתוֹ לְעוֹלָם וָעֶד. " If you can't see that in your client, that's Hebrew from http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/shma.html and means "Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One". Since that's RTL (Right To Left) text, should ltrim remove the leading or trailing whitespace? I like Jonathan's trim_start and trim_end. Side note: I'm implementing the tests now, but only for bog-standard .trim. I won't do the rest until we settle this. So far I only have one failing test: is_deeply(trim(()), (), "trim on empty list"); Results in: not ok 10 - trim on empty list # have: "" # want: [] Note that this output is from my locally hacked version of Test.pm which is kind enough to tell you what the failure is. I'll submit a patch for that later. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
