Hmmm... Okay having noticed Ken Ray's post on the utility of non- breaking-spaces *not* being recognised as spaces - it is perhaps not as clear cut as it seems...
Mark. On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 11:02 +0100, Mark Waddingham wrote: > Prior to 2.2.1 (I believe) non-breaking-spaces were treated the same as > other spaces. In particular, they would be eaten up by the 'word' chunk > *and* allow line wraps in fields. > > The latter was reported as a bug and so 'fixed'. In so doing it seems to > have broken the functionality of the 'word' chunk in this specific > circumstance - something which I don't believe has been mentioned up > until now. > > Anyway, if people are generally of the feeling that the word chunk > should also eat non-breaking spaces then BZ it and it will do so > again... > > Warmest Regards, > > Mark. > > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 18:57 -0500, Ken Ray wrote: > > On 8/13/05 3:22 PM, "Sivakatirswami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What is the ASCII for a hard space and while the space might be > > > retained, I do believe even with a a hard space, the empty line(s) > > > deletion at beginning and end of the entire text chunk would still be > > > achieved (the original goal) > > > > > > right? > > > > The ASCII value for a hard space is 202, and unfortunately the answer > > depends on what you've got in your container. If you have: > > > > (CR) > > (spc)(CR) > > Test1(CR) > > Test2(CR) > > (CR) > > (spc)(CR) > > > > when you do word 1 to -1 you get: > > > > Test1(CR) > > Test2 > > > > However, if the container is: > > > > (CR) > > (hardspc)(CR) > > Test1(CR) > > Test2(CR) > > (CR) > > (hardspc)(CR) > > > > when you do word 1 to -1 you get: > > > > (hardspc)CR > > Test1(CR) > > Test2(CR) > > (hardspc) > > > > This is why I use the regex expression for my "stsTrim" function instead of > > "word 1 to -1"... it's not as elegant, but it *does* handle all the > > situations. > > > > function stsTrim pWhat > > local tRetVal > > get matchText(pWhat, "(?s)^\s*(.*?)\s*$", tRetVal) > > return tRetVal > > end stsTrim > > > > But if you know for sure that you won't be dealing with hard spaces, "word 1 > > to -1" is really elegant and easier to use I'd think. > > > > > > Ken Ray > > Sons of Thunder Software > > Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-revolution mailing list > > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution