Re: Catch line indetation
| From: | Ashley Sheridan | Date: | Fri, 28 Oct 2016 11:09:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Catch line indetation | ||
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On 28 October 2016 12:01:16 BST, Narcis Garcia <informatica@actiu.net> wrote:
>Hello, I have a string (I quote here only) as:
>
>' <table>...</table>'
>
>As you can see there are 3 spaces at the beginning, but it could be 0
>or
>4 or any number of spaces.
>How can I get a string with only the initial spaces part?
>
>' <table>...</table>' -> ' '
>'hello' -> ''
>' hello' -> ' '
>
>Thanks.
Have you tried regular expressions? Something like:
^( )*[^ ]
The first captured match is the number of spaces, from 0 to any amount. Not the space between the
brackets and before the closing square bracket
Ash
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