Re: string func to use in .emacs

[Peter Wu]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:45:05 +0100, Mario Domgörgen wrote:

> Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:
>> What I am looking for is like this:
>> 
>> input    := "Emacs "
>> output   := "Emacs"    
>> 
>> The trailing blank space is trimmed.

> ,----[ C-h f delete-trailing-whitespace RET ]
> | delete-trailing-whitespace is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
> | `simple'.  (delete-trailing-whitespace)
> | 
> | Delete all the trailing whitespace across the current buffer.  All
> | whitespace after the last non-whitespace character in a line is
> | deleted.  This respects narrowing, created by C-x n n and friends.  A
> | formfeed is not considered whitespace by this function.
> | 
> | [back]
> `----

> Look at this function to start with....

This function seems to trim the trailing whitespaces in a buffer. How can
I use it to trim a string variable?

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