Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] send-email: suppress leading and trailing whitespaces before alias expansion
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Jun 10, 2015, 16:15 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Remi Lespinet <remi.lespinet@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
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>>> 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.I guess we are saying the same thing, then? That is, trim-list as a separate step does not make sense an it is part of the job for the helper to turn a single list with multiple addresses into an array?