Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:30:20 +0300 From: "Matti J. Karki" <mjk@iki.fi> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Kyrre Nyg?rd <kyrreny@broadpark.no> Subject: Re: Code beautifiers, anyone? Message-ID: <1b15366e0608251130j41aa582fx77be81c29ed295a0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060825173135.GE78862@gothmog.pc> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060824145822.0194fc10@broadpark.no> <1b15366e0608240618j62d41ad3j537f095b2e566ed5@mail.gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060824192439.02386de8@broadpark.no> <1b15366e0608241209t1d655b5fl98063ecb6221b0a8@mail.gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060825152152.02385da8@broadpark.no> <20060825173135.GE78862@gothmog.pc>
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On 8/25/06, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On 2006-08-25 15:24, Kyrre Nyg?rd <kyrreny@broadpark.no> wrote:
> > At 21:09 24.08.2006, Matti J. Karki wrote:
> >
> > >Well, my scripts aren't magic. They are pretty simple. Here's few (not
> > >scripts, these are valid Vim regexps):
> >
> > Those are great regexps, Matti, thank you so much.
> >
> > They have been noteworthy recorded!
> >
> > Say, could I use these with Sed let's say in a Bash script?
> >
> > One more question about :%s/^ *$//g versus :%s/ *$//g,
> > won't the latter here perform the job of the former?
>
> They are different for a reason, I guess:
>
> The first one matches lines that only have spaces (it fails
> spectacularly with lines that have a mix of TAB vs. SPACE characters
> though, unless you pre-expand TABs).
>
> The second one only removes trailing SPACEs from a line.
>
Yes, you are correct.
However, the latter of those regexps should do the job of the former,
so Kyrre was also right.
I just play safe with regexps.
-Matti
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