I have a variable length, space delimited string (variable name "avg_period") that has trailing spaces that I need to remove before using the "split" command in a script. I could not find a clean way to do this other than trimming the trailing spaces from the whole file (rather than just the string I need). Is there a method to trim spaces from a variable?
Alternatively, I wanted to define a delimiter to "split" the string such as a non-whitespace character followed by a space but was not successful.
Any suggestions? Here is my code:
Alternatively, I wanted to define a delimiter to "split" the string such as a non-whitespace character followed by a space but was not successful.
Any suggestions? Here is my code:
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var delim = " ";
//Define Array to contain the averaging periods processed for each output file
var stringArray = new Array(); //create array to hold all processed averaging periods
var arrayLength = 0; //array length
var avg_period; //variable which holds selection
//Get averaging periods
UltraEdit.document[index].findReplace.find("AVERTIME");//Keyword for listing the averaging periods
if (UltraEdit.document[index].isFound() == true) {
UltraEdit.document[index].gotoLine(0,13);
UltraEdit.document[index].gotoLineSelect(0,50);
avg_period = UltraEdit.document[index].selection;
}
//split string at "delim"
stringArray = avg_period.split(delim);
//get number of averaging periods processed
arrayLength = stringArray.length;
UltraEdit.activeDocument.write(arrayLength + "\r\n");
