[racket-dev] Are There More String Functions?

'trim' is used in lots of languages for this, and I think we should stick
with that.

Sam
On Apr 18, 2012 3:28 PM, "Eli Barzilay" <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:

> Just now, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
> >
> > On Apr 18, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> >
> > >  `string-normalize-spaces', which takes a string and a regexp for the
> > >  spaces, and turns all spaces into single ones.  Same principles as
> > >  above.  This one is getting a `#:trim?' keyword that says whether
> > >  spaces at the edges should be dropped (the default) or normalized.
> > >
> > >  BTW, I hate that name -- it makes the `string-' prefix looks even
> > >  uglier...  Any suggestions for a better name?
> >
> >
> > string-reduce
> >
> > ?
>
> That sounds like a kind of a `fold'...  (BTW, some names that I
> considered are: `normalize-spaces', `compact-spaces',
> `string-normalize'.  They all had problems.)
>
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