Stripping new lines from strings?

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	Matthew Schinckel [SMTP:matt at null.net]
> 
> > By default, string.split splits at whitespace, but it has an optional
> second
> > argument, which allows you to split by any string. Wouldn't it be nice
> if
> > string.strip and its siblings had a similar 2nd argument...
> 
> why not:
> 
> >>> string.join(string.split(str, '\n'))
> 
> Or would that be gloriously slow ?
> 
Speed isn't the problem - the problem with this is that it strips stuff out
of the middle as well as the ends. So:

>>> brian = '***words***words***'
>>> string.join(string.split(brian, '*'), '')
'wordswords'

But if split had a second argument, you could do:
>>>string.strip(brian, '*')
'words***words'

BTW, if this message turns up twice, I apologise. It hasn't shown up an hour
after first being sent the first time. 

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk






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