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Hi There,

In javascript (1.8.5 I thought ECMA-262) you can use the trim() method removes whitespace from both sides of a string.

var str = " Hello World! ";
alert(str.trim());

For browsers that do not support the trim() method, you can remove whitespaces from both sides of a string with a regular expression:

function myTrim(x) {
return x.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/gm,'');
}

function myFunction() {
var str = myTrim(" Hello World! ");
alert(str);
}

Were "\s" removes the whitespaces. Is there a line of script in Opus8 or 9 who do the same?

Thanks in advance for any help...

ECMA-262 is the standardisation used for JavaScript. Different versions of JavaScript are standardised in different editions of ECMAScript. Currently we're on ECMAScript 5.1 but work is under way on ECMAScript 6 - which I think is due next year?

OpusScript is based on the ECMA standardisation but one of the first editions and this makes it roughly equivalent to JavaScript 1.1 or 1.2. This means that as well as all the all the script functions in the Opus manual, you'll find JavaScript at that level may work as well for Opus Professional publications up to and including v8.

Opus Professional v9.5 includes a different publication type - HTML5. Because this is actual JavaScript, the version available in the published publication depends on the browser you use rather than OpusScript itself. Of course any work in the Opus IDE or standard (exe / plexus) publications still only have access to the OpusScript level.


As you don't have access to trim or regexp, you'll have to create a loop and read through the string checking the characters values and then extracting the part you want. Something like this might work:



Mack

Super,
Thank you for the quick comment & reaction on this mackavi!

regards