TRIM$ function

[kawageo]

LTRIM$ function both in QB and FB trims out just leading spaces, not whitespaces. By C convention, tab characters, spaces, and line ends are members of whitespaces.

May I suggest TRIM$ function which is new to FB trims ALL leading whitespaces as well as trailing ones, not just spaces.

Geo

[DrV]

Trim$ is in more recent versions of VB (2 and up iirc), and it only trims the ASCII SPC char, the same as the FB runtime function.

[kawageo]

Which is more important, C convention or VB convention?

I sure hope it is C convention for our FB which has been adopted with so many C features.

Geo

[TheBigBasicQ]

uh...conventions suck. IMHO there should be two functions one for each type of 'whitespace removal'.

[Zap]

Add it to the user lib, since either function is useful, and neither is hard to do.