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i'm trying to strip any trailing space from every line of a multiline string without splitting the string using something like StringRegExpReplace($string, '(?m)\h+$', '')

sample string...

a [followed by a space]

b [followed by a space]

so it seems like any of these expressions should work, but only the last space is matched...

(?m)\h+$
(?m:\h+$)
(?m:\h+)$
(?m)\h+\z
(?m:\h+\z)
(?m:\h+)\z

so \h doesn't seem like it's working in multiline mode, yet this does...

(?m)\s+$

from the help file...

$ assert end of string (or line, in multiline mode)

and...

The settings of the PCRE_CASELESS, PCRE_MULTILINE, PCRE_DOTALL, and PCRE_EXTENDED options can be changed from within the pattern by a sequence of Perl option letters enclosed between "(?" and ")". The option letters are

m for PCRE_MULTILINE

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I think this is the easiest way:

#include <Array.au3>
$String = "Red   " & @CRLF & "Blue " & @CRLF & "Green     "
$String = StringSplit($String, @CRLF, 3)
For $i = 0 To UBound($String) - 1
$String[$i] = StringStripWS($String[$i], 2)
Next
$String = _ArrayToString($String, @CRLF)
MsgBox(32, "", "|" & $String & "|")

Sorry for my bad English but nobody is perfect. [font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Ramzes[/font]

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StringRegExpReplace($s, '\h*\r', '')

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iCode,

Try this: :graduated:

StringRegExpReplace($sString, "\h*(?=\v|\z)", "")

\h*      - any number of horizontal whitespace characters
(?=\v|\z) - which are followed by either a vertical whitespce or an end of string.

That seems to work even if there are multiple spaces at the end of the lines or additional spaces within them. ;)

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ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
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Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
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i should have specified that i don't want to strip vertical spaces, so none of the above will work, except...

@Melba23 - ?= positive look ahead is a weak point for me - i changed yours a bit (* to +) and this seems to doing what i want...

\h+(?=\v|\z)

thanks for that! :graduated:

so this is is pretty close to what i wanted to build - matches string beginning space(s), string ending space(s) and beginning and ending horiz space(s) for each line...

(?m:^\h+)|\h+(?=\v|\z)

would be cool i think to have 2 options added to StringStripWS()

* strip all horizontal space for beginning of every line

* strip all horizontal space for end of every line

actually this works even better...

^\s+|(?m:^\h+)|\h+(?=\v|\z)|\s+$
Edited by iCode

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iCode,

You can do that with a simple wrapper function as Ramzes showed above so I doubt your suggestion woudl meet with much success. :graduated:

From the Feature Request Guidelines:

Think about your feature request. If you can do it via UDFs, then don't ask for it to be built in. There's a reason you can create your own functions.

M23

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Open spoiler to see my UDFs:

Spoiler

ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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