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From:
Alexander Hartmaier
Date:
March 31, 2021 11:28
Subject:
Re: Let's talk about trim() so more
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CAB49QrasHbwaorO7dtrcvpH74xiY9VfU=5A5KBnuRsPqd0CGaA@mail.gmail.com
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:13 PM shmem <gm@cruft.de> wrote:

> You are not alone. I don't understand all the hullaballoo about trim().
> And I don't get why it ever should be implemented in core.
>

In my opinion the strongest point to add it is that Perl is considered the
best tool for text/string manipulation.
I remember, when I learned Perl 20 years ago, I was often wondering why
Perl doesn't have functions PHP had. Trim was one of them.

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