Well, I am relieved to say it wasn't such a dumb question after all.
Thanks chaps! And thanks particularly to Thomas Fischer who has come up
with the most elegant solution. QED. Now I need to go off and study
regular expressions.....
Bob
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>This is a classical application of regular expressions. Try
>get replaceText(" The cat sat on the mat. ","^ *","")
>The "^" tells the search engine to start at the beginning.
>The "*" looks for as many of the previous characters (here space) as
>possible.
>To get rid of them at the end use
>get replaceText(" The cat sat on the mat. "," *$","")
>The "$" tells the search engine to look at the end.
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