What should Trim do?

[Frank Heckenbach]

Martin Liddle wrote:

> What should the trim function do?  It seems to me that under gpc it 
> removes trailing spaces from a string.  Under Delphi it removes leading 
> and trailing spaces.  Unfortunately I don't have any Turbo Pascal 
> documentation to hand (I assume trim is a Borlandism).

Nope, it's EP (6.7.6.7), and the correct behaviour is indeed to
remove only trailing spaces.

Since it's only a built-in function, not a keyword, it's easy to
overload it in a Delphi compatibility unit if someone wants Delphi's
incorrect behaviour ...

Frank

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