buckaduck writes:

This is pretty much what he did do, and it doesn't work.

I think it half works. He's getting caught by the greedy *, which explain the trailing space on his match, but I don't see how he got a leading space. Anytime I scratch my head like that on my own code, I fall back to a technique like the one I suggested.

All your suggestions are great - and as usual, TMTOWTDI - but I was hoping in my response to point akm2 towards ways he could help himself more, now and in the future. Maybe if he came up with something new, he'd post it back here.

Peace,
-McD

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Removing spaces, again. by McD
in thread Removing spaces, again. by akm2

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