• Andrej Mitrovic (7/7) Apr 26 2011 E.g.:
• Nick Sabalausky (4/12) Apr 26 2011 assert(strip(blue) == "blue");
• Andrej Mitrovic (3/21) Apr 26 2011 Yup. blue[].strip (slice is needed).
• Nick Sabalausky (3/25) Apr 26 2011 Yea, I keep trying to do trim(), too. Hard habit to break :)
• Jonathan M Davis (8/38) Apr 26 2011 That's one of those functions that is quite common among many languages ...
• Nick Sabalausky (5/45) Apr 26 2011 Yup, absolutely. For me, until about a year ago, I had spent a lot of ti...

Andrej Mitrovic <none none.none> writes:

E.g.:

void main()
{
    char[10] blue = "blue      ";
    assert(blue == "blue");
}

Obviously these two are different, but what function can I use to compare
strings in situations where whitespace is the delimiter?

"Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:

"Andrej Mitrovic" <none none.none> wrote in message 
news:ip7phj$28v5$1 digitalmars.com...
 E.g.:

 void main()
 {
    char[10] blue = "blue      ";
    assert(blue == "blue");
 }

 Obviously these two are different, but what function can I use to compare 
 strings in situations where whitespace is the delimiter?

assert(strip(blue) == "blue");

Is that what you need or did I misunderstand?

Andrej Mitrovic <none none.none> writes:

Nick Sabalausky Wrote:

 "Andrej Mitrovic" <none none.none> wrote in message 
 news:ip7phj$28v5$1 digitalmars.com...
 E.g.:

 void main()
 {
    char[10] blue = "blue      ";
    assert(blue == "blue");
 }

 Obviously these two are different, but what function can I use to compare 
 strings in situations where whitespace is the delimiter?

 
 assert(strip(blue) == "blue");
 
 Is that what you need or did I misunderstand?
 
 

Yup. blue[].strip (slice is needed).

And here I was desperately trying to find the trim() function. Thanks!

"Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:

"Andrej Mitrovic" <none none.none> wrote in message 
news:ip7pqt$29hc$1 digitalmars.com...
 Nick Sabalausky Wrote:

 "Andrej Mitrovic" <none none.none> wrote in message
 news:ip7phj$28v5$1 digitalmars.com...
 E.g.:

 void main()
 {
    char[10] blue = "blue      ";
    assert(blue == "blue");
 }

 Obviously these two are different, but what function can I use to 
 compare
 strings in situations where whitespace is the delimiter?

 assert(strip(blue) == "blue");

 Is that what you need or did I misunderstand?

 Yup. blue[].strip (slice is needed).

 And here I was desperately trying to find the trim() function. Thanks!

Yea, I keep trying to do trim(), too. Hard habit to break :)

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

 "Andrej Mitrovic" <none none.none> wrote in message
 news:ip7pqt$29hc$1 digitalmars.com...
 
 Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
 "Andrej Mitrovic" <none none.none> wrote in message
 news:ip7phj$28v5$1 digitalmars.com...
 
 E.g.:
 
 void main()
 {
 
    char[10] blue = "blue      ";
    assert(blue == "blue");
 
 }
 
 Obviously these two are different, but what function can I use to
 compare
 strings in situations where whitespace is the delimiter?

 
 assert(strip(blue) == "blue");
 
 Is that what you need or did I misunderstand?

 
 Yup. blue[].strip (slice is needed).
 
 And here I was desperately trying to find the trim() function. Thanks!

 
 Yea, I keep trying to do trim(), too. Hard habit to break :)

That's one of those functions that is quite common among many languages but is 
often not called quite the same thing. So, if you're used to a particular 
name, and the language chose another, then you're constantly thrown off by it 
until you use it enough that it sticks. But if they'd picked the name that 
you're used to, then someone else would have been constantly thrown off 
instead, since they were used to languages/libraries that used the first name. 
So, you can't really win.

- Jonathan M Davis

"Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg gmx.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.3694.1303869505.4748.digitalmars-d-learn puremagic.com...
 "Andrej Mitrovic" <none none.none> wrote in message
 news:ip7pqt$29hc$1 digitalmars.com...

 Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
 "Andrej Mitrovic" <none none.none> wrote in message
 news:ip7phj$28v5$1 digitalmars.com...

 E.g.:

 void main()
 {

    char[10] blue = "blue      ";
    assert(blue == "blue");

 }

 Obviously these two are different, but what function can I use to
 compare
 strings in situations where whitespace is the delimiter?

 assert(strip(blue) == "blue");

 Is that what you need or did I misunderstand?

 Yup. blue[].strip (slice is needed).

 And here I was desperately trying to find the trim() function. Thanks!

 Yea, I keep trying to do trim(), too. Hard habit to break :)

 That's one of those functions that is quite common among many languages 
 but is
 often not called quite the same thing. So, if you're used to a particular
 name, and the language chose another, then you're constantly thrown off by 
 it
 until you use it enough that it sticks. But if they'd picked the name that
 you're used to, then someone else would have been constantly thrown off
 instead, since they were used to languages/libraries that used the first 
 name.
 So, you can't really win.

Yup, absolutely. For me, until about a year ago, I had spent a lot of time 
with Tango, which uses "trim", and I do a lot of work in Haxe which IIRC 
also uses "trim", so that's why my brain still keeps reaching for "trim".