Re: st: how to avoid truncation when trimming a long string

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 06:38 PM 3/12/2006, reardon, sean f. wrote:
> colleagues --
> i want to trim leading a trailing blanks off a string entered by a user
> in a program -- the string is saved in local macro "model".  the string
> may be very long (longer than 256 characters).
>
> when i use the following line:
>
> local model = trim("`model'")
How about just

local model `model'

I believe leading and trailing blanks get striped that way.


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