Problem 44. Trimming Spaces

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Franck Dernoncourt on 28 Jan 2012

Test #5 seems false:
I guess "a = sprintf('\ttab in front, space at end ');" should be a = '\ttab in front, space at end '.
Besides, tab is ASCII 9 (not 32).

Selvaraaju Murugesan on 15 Jan 2013

@Franck..use isspace function. There is a difference between whitespace and tab space! BTW strtrim removes both white and tab space !

Sanzhar Askaruly on 3 Jul 2019

pretty easy

Rik on 13 Jan 2021

This problem should probably contain a test with only spaces as well. That requires solutions to be much more robust.

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Carlos Castillo on 30 Jan 2019

Isn't the use of regexp or regexprep supposed to be limited? It's not that I dislike using it, it's just that these string problems seem to be becoming a regexprep practice.

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Chuck Saunders on 1 Feb 2018

There's no test case with multiple spaces in the middle. I had considered strjoin(strsplit), which would pass all the tests here if you removed empty cells from the strsplit operation, but it would reduce multiple spaces in the middle to one.

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Allen on 13 Oct 2017

I am sure that there is a more efficient way to perform this operation with just regexp, but the intricacies of this wonderful function still elude me.

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Ionut Barbu on 14 Aug 2017

works if you have MATLAB >= 2016b

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Gökhan Ayar on 7 Feb 2017

i do not understand what the solution of test 5 should be, or why my solution is wrong

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Fatpuss on 14 Dec 2015

One line

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Varoujan on 2 Jun 2015

Keeps failing test 5 because pretty much all Matlab functions treat \t as space. Tried strtrim(a), isspace(a(i)) = 1, textscan(a,'%s').
The only thing that picks it up is isequal(a(1),' ') = 0. So, only brute force loop can pass test 5.
Not worth the effort.

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Varoujan on 2 Jun 2015

Test case 5 is failing for strtrim(str) or isspace(str) functions - both consider \t as space.

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Richard on 4 Jun 2014

Would fail for double spaces within string

Sebastian on 8 Sep 2015

Check out the "anchor" expressions $ and ^.

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Jon on 4 Dec 2013

How is this able to pass test 5? It should remove the leading tab and fail.

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Trung Duong on 4 Feb 2012

check the test 5????

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