[Newbies] Remove trailing spaces of aString

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 19:28:54 UTC 2012


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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