Subject: Re: Testing whitespace From: Brandon Ibach <bibach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 16:04:16 -0600 |
Quoting Jany Quintard <quintard.j@xxxxxx>: > When processing the content (character data) of an element, I want to know > if this element contains only space characters. It is easy to use a loop > to check if each character is equal to #\space. > But, a space can also be a newline, a tabulation and so on. > So, is there a best way to check spaces (I guess using properties) than > comparing a character to a list of values ? > Well, Peter will have to speak to the relative speed of this method as opposed to using (member) against a list of whitespace characters, but you could use: (char-property 'input-whitespace? c), where "c" is the character in question. This requires OpenJade 1.3, as 1.2.2 will simply return false for every character. -Brandon :) DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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