Regex to match all trailing whitespace _and_ newlines.
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 18:23:35 EDT 2011
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 13:30, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> In the terrific Anki [1] application I am trying to remove trailing
>> whitespace from form fields. This is my regex:
>> [\n+\s+]$
>> My attempt:
>>>>> sub = re.compile(r"\s*?(\n|$)").sub
>>>> sub("<EOL>", "alpha \nbeta \r\n\ngamma\n")
> 'alpha<EOL>beta<EOL><EOL>gamma<EOL>'
>>>> sub("<EOL>", "alpha \nbeta \r\n\ngamma")
> 'alpha<EOL>beta<EOL><EOL>gamma<EOL>'
>>>> sub("<EOL>", "alpha \nbeta \r\n\ngamma\t")
> 'alpha<EOL>beta<EOL><EOL>gamma<EOL>'
>
Hi Peter, sorry for the _late_ reply.
It turns out that Anki stores newlines internally as <br>, since its
display model is based on HTML. Thanks, though!
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Dotan Cohen
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