On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:23:51AM -0700, Wichmann, Mats D wrote: > but in either case this just shows you > the stuff, it doesn't remove it. I think that's how it should be... removing it on existing files w/o care is bad. > If it's a persistent problem, a simple > filter is easier to use. For new files sure, for existing files I would rather people ensure hunsk they edit and linees they edit contain no/few whitespace changes. > I find Python's rstrip string method useful for this, i.e. if you > have a line of text in 'line', > > line = line.rstrip() > > saves a new copy of the line with the > trailing whitespace removed. What's wrong with sed? --cwReceived on Mon Jun 02 16:14:50 2003
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