Hi,
It is indeed elegant, but a condition check is necessary here as it
will remove the first word + the space(s) if there is no space at the
start of the line.
" The cat sat on the mat. "
will become
" The cat sat on the mat. "
But if no space in front the result is
"cat sat on the mat. "
Greetings,
Wouter
On 22 Oct 2005, at 22:41, Bob Warren wrote:
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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