From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Dec  2 22:43:31 2004
Subject: deblank.m: remove blanks or spaces ?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Pascal A. Dupuis" <Pascal dot Dupuis at esat dot kuleuven dot ac dot be>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:44:06 -0500

On 29-Nov-2004, Pascal A. Dupuis <Pascal dot Dupuis at esat dot kuleuven dot ac dot be> wrote:

| According to the doc, deblank remove the trailing 'blanks' from a
| string, where no obvious definitions is given for 'blanks'. The code
| implementation is to cut the string at the first ' ' (ASCII 32) or
| '\0' character.
| 
| Wouldn't it be better to remove trailing whitespaces ? That would say
| tabs, form feeds, line feed, would also be removed. If you're
| searching for a number of a word, those entities don't make sense.

I applied your patch.

Thanks,

jwe



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