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RE: st: how to avoid truncation when trimming a long string |
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Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:19:26 -0800 |
ah yes -- the simple elegant solution
local model `model'
strips leading & trailing blanks. thanks richard.
by the way, removing the = sign does not work:
local model trim("`model'")
returns this:
. di "`model'"
trim(xxx)
where xxx is what was in `model'
thanks.
sean.
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard
Williams
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 4:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: how to avoid truncation when trimming a long string
At 06:38 PM 3/12/2006, reardon, sean f. wrote:
>colleagues --
>i want to trim leading a trailing blanks off a string entered by a user
>in a program -- the string is saved in local macro "model". the string
>may be very long (longer than 256 characters).
>
>when i use the following line:
>
>local model = trim("`model'")
How about just
local model `model'
I believe leading and trailing blanks get striped that way.
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