Re: Removing spaces

On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 5:07 pm, Dave Smith wrote:
> I have a field of type text that has a value like
>
> 'hello \nworld \n'
>
> I would like to remove the trailing blanks between the last character
> and the newline. I would like to use replace with a regx like
> /[ ]+\n/\n/ but it does not seem to work.

The replace function doesn't handle regexps AFAIK - you could look at
SUBSTRING() in the POSIX Regexp section of the functions reference but I
don't think that's going to do it either.

The problem is you seem to want to remove spaces after "hello" and "world" - I
think that means you need perl regexps or a loop.

Unless some posix guru steps forward, I'd say the easiest way is to build a
loop that repeatedly calls replace(my_string,' \n','\n')
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Richard Huxton