Code beautifiers, anyone?

[Matti J. Karki]

On 8/25/06, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On 2006-08-25 15:24, Kyrre Nyg?rd <kyrreny at broadpark.no> wrote:
> > At 21:09 24.08.2006, Matti J. Karki wrote:
> >
> > >Well, my scripts aren't magic. They are pretty simple. Here's few (not
> > >scripts, these are valid Vim regexps):
> >
> > Those are great regexps, Matti, thank you so much.
> >
> > They have been noteworthy recorded!
> >
> > Say, could I use these with Sed let's say in a Bash script?
> >
> > One more question about :%s/^ *$//g versus :%s/ *$//g,
> > won't the latter here perform the job of the former?
>
> They are different for a reason, I guess:
>
> The first one matches lines that only have spaces (it fails
> spectacularly with lines that have a mix of TAB vs. SPACE characters
> though, unless you pre-expand TABs).
>
> The second one only removes trailing SPACEs from a line.
>

Yes, you are correct.

However, the latter of those regexps should do the job of the former,
so Kyrre was also right.

I just play safe with regexps.


        -Matti