[Newbies] Remove trailing spaces of aString

blake dsblakewatson at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 20:12:11 UTC 2012


Sorry, Hannes,

I happened to have Pharo up right then so I used that. Not thrilled
they have different methods for this.

===Blake===

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:28 PM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Blake,
>
> This is actually the problem
>
> 'abc    ' trimRight
>
> does not work in
>
> 4.3, Update 11860  (= the version in the one-click download from
> http://ftp.squeak.org/4.3/Squeak-4.3-All-in-One.zip )
>
> "unknown selector"
>
> Which version do you use?
>
> --Hannes
>
> On 4/27/12, blake <dsblakewatson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In a Workspace, try:
>>
>> 'abc    ' trimRight
>>
>> There's also trimLeft and a trimBoth. You can browse the String class
>> to see them. You can also see the code in there which gives a hint as
>> to how easy it is to modify for different character.
>>
>> ===Blake===
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:27 AM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I use Squeak 4.3, Update 11860.
>>>
>>> I want to remove the trailing spaces and or tabs and LF of a String
>>>
>>> something like
>>> 'abc
>>> '
>>>
>>> should just be
>>> 'abc'.
>>>
>>> If I remember  that there was a method in class String to something
>>> like this. Is this correct?
>>> Is there a package with additional String convenience methods?
>>>
>>> Thank you for the answer in advance
>>> --Hannes
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