may be we should have a trimWithSeparators: #() where we can specify what we want. For the question about isSeparator I do not know.
On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 1:53 PM, PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk> wrote: > Hello All > > > > I have a little puzzle to disturb your Sunday lunch, maybe. I have been > scraping text data from web pages, which often comes with redundant space > before or after. I routinely use ‘trim’ on the final string output, but I > have found cases where there are still redundant spaces. Inspecting the > results, I find that the characters are non-break spaces (codepoint 160, > Unicode U+00A0). Looking at the code, String>>#trim depends on > Character>>#isSeparator, which does not answer true for a non-break space. I > can use trimBoth: [:char| char asInteger = 160] to remove the redundant > spaces if I know where to expect them, so it is not a major problem. But the > question remains: should non-break space be included in the list of > separators in Character>>#isSeparator. > > > > Peter Kenny > >
