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Re: can I do this better? [trim whitespace]
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Re: can I do this better? [trim whitespace]


  • Subject: Re: can I do this better? [trim whitespace]
  • From: "Daniel A. Shockley" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:28:01 -0400

There is one other consideration for these functions: how big is the string and/or whitespace you want to trim? Most (all?) of the handlers I saw posted will fail if they go over about 4050 characters, since AppleScript gets a stack error when parsing characters into a list of that length. Doesn't matter how much memory you give it, it's built into AppleScript. Of course, you could then use an OSAX or break it into chunks using has's chunkText library (which i believe is vanilla AppleScript).

Just wanted to point out this one potential issue. I ran into it when working with downloading others' web pages, many of which had a lot more than 4050 characters.

From: Ric Phillips <email@hidden>
To: Apple Script <email@hidden>

On 13/6/02 3:47 AM, "garrett" <email@hidden> wrote:

hey!

I wrote this little routine to trim off any trailing or beginning spaces or
returns. would any of u pros do it differently or better? if so, how and
why?


Well, a great deal depends on what you consider to be 'better'. For some
that is purely a matter of speed, for others readability of the source - and
then there is memory usage, and / or just plain elegance!

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