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.\"
.\" cook - file construction tool
.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1997 Peter Miller;
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
.\"
.\" MANIFEST: User Guide, Builtin Functions, Strip
.\"
.H 2 "Strip"
The
.I strip
function is used to remove leading and trailing white space from words.
Internal sequences of white space are replaced by a single space.
.H 3 "Example"
.TS
center,tab(;);
l l.
Expression;Result
_
[strip " " "foo " " bar"];"" foo bar
[strip " really big "];"really big"
.TE
Quotes are used here for clarity, and are not present in the internal
representation of strings.
.H 3 "See Also"
split
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