Re: left-trim and right-trim for strings

[maierh]

"Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> 
writes:

> How ironic.  You used `split-string' just where `string-match' makes
> more sense and then use `string-match' where `split-string' is just what
> you need:

> Why not
>
>    (if (string-match "\\`[\n\t ]+" str) (substring str (match-end 0)) str) ?
> or
>    (if (string-match "\\`[\n\t ]*" str) (substring str (match-end 0))) ?
>

Since emacs-21 we have too `replace-regexp-in-string'. Personally, I
like it very much.

,----
| (replace-regexp-in-string "^ *" "" "  This is a string.  ")
`----

Harald