Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] send-email: suppress leading and trailing whitespaces before alias expansion

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Jun 10, 2015, 15:28 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqoaknr39r.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa8w7oarl.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Remi Lespinet <remi.lespinet@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
>
>> I agree, I'd like to put it right after split_at_commas in a separate
>> function "trim_list". Is it a good idea even if the function is one
>> line long ?
>
> Hmph, if I have "A, B, C" and call a function that gives an array of
> addresses, treating the input as comma-separated addresses, I would
> expect ("A", "B", "C") to be returned from that function, instead of
> having to later trim the whitespace around what is returned.

It is actually doing this. But if you have " A,B,C ", then you'll get " A", "B", "C ". But once you're trimming around commas, trimming leading and trailing spaces fits well with split itself.

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Matthieu Moy
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