Re: getting carried with "strip" in string comparisons?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:

  rpjd> does everyone [use strip] this way?  that is, would this be
  rpjd> considered a best practice?

I never use it unless I know for a fact that there is likely to be an
issue.


I use an intelligent editor when editing makefiles (Emacs in makefile
mode) and I have it strip all trailing whitespace automatically.  This
cuts down significantly on the problems.

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