whitespace

How can I make Tortoise SVN's commit dialog indicate non-whitespace versus whitespace-only changes?

I often have lots of whitespace-only changes (spaces turning to tabs or vice versa etc.) and I generally don't care about these changes. I know that whitespace could be important (i.e. some whitespace changes can be breaking), but it would be very useful if there was a way to tell when looking at huge lists of files which ones contain wh...

PHP, C++, etc. syntax explanation

Why is it that in most programming languages it is required to have a semicolon after statements but not after things like if elseif and else. Do the compilers all look out for newlines? If that's true then why wouldn't they do that for all statements? Am I missing something? It really doesn't make sense to me... ...

LINQ to XML generates \r\n between tags?

Hello, I am generating a XElement having this structure: <TestNames>\r\n <Test>YA</Test>\r\n <Test>YO</Test>\r\n </TestNames> How do I get rid of the whitespaces and \r\n in a non-hack way :) Update: XElement testsXmlDocument= new XElement("TestNames"); foreach (string test in selectedTests) testsXmlDocumen...

CMake + Link error + Whitespace in path

I'm trying to compile my CUDA project with CMake 2.8.2. My SDK is located in "/Developed/GPU Computing/" (OSX). The problem is the whitespace in the path, thus CMake doesn't find the libs. I tried: link_libraries("-L${CUDA_SDK_ROOT_DIR}/lib -lcutil") Result: i686-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1: Computing/C/lib: No such file or directory Doe...

Writing white-space delimited text to be human readable in Python

I have a list of lists that looks something like this: data = [['seq1', 'ACTAGACCCTAG'], ['sequence287653', 'ACTAGNACTGGG'], ['s9', 'ACTAGAAACTAG']] I write the information to a file like this: for i in data: for j in i: file.write('\t') file.write(j) file.write('\n') The output looks lik...

Wondering in C strings, NULL, white spaces..

In C, can I say a white space in a string has a NULL type, or something else? In C, which character represents the termination of a string? ...

How to remove the insignificant whitespace in a XmlNodeType.Text node?

I have an html node: <p>Line1 Line2 Line ThereAreTwoSpacesAfterThis ThereAreTwoSpacesBeforeThis </p> In any browser, the final use result is Line1 Line2 Line ThereAreTwoSpacesAfterThis ThereAreTwoSpacesBeforeThis which is the result I want. So how to remove the insignificant whitespace in a XmlNodeType.Text node (C#)? =========...

untabify and remove trailing whitespaces in emacs

Hi Gurus, I'm working on large scale project where in there are ~100 engineers working on many files. I would like to see if I could add customization in emacs to remove trailing white spaces and untabify the lines which i'm editing. It wont be good idea to untabify and remove whitespaces in large files which are not related my changes....

Trim leading/trailing whitespace from textarea using jQuery?

following code is an example of text placed into a textarea from a database. <textarea id="inputPane" cols="80" rows="40" class="pane"> <p> some text here... </p> <p> more text here... </p> </textarea> using jQuery's .trim what is the actual jquery code to remove all leading and trailing whitespace and have the textarea disp...

Does extra space slow down the processor?

After learning how to "correctly" unset a node, I noticed that using PHP's unset() function leaves the tabs and spaces behind. So now I have this big chunk of white space in between nodes at times. I'm wondering if PHP iterates through blank spaces/returns/tabs and whether it would eventually slow down the system. I'm also asking whethe...

Trying to replace all white space with a single space.

Any ideas? My program is a file validation utility and I have to read in a format file then parse out each line by a single space. But obviously, the person who wrote the format file may use tabs, or 2 spaces, or any form of whitespace, and I'm looking for some code to do that. I've tried this: public static string RemoveWhit...

emacs: go to first non-whitespace character in line

I'm looking for the emacs equivalent of vi's '^'. How to I move cursor to the first non-whitespace character in a line? ...

Shell script with whitespace in path executes differently depending on directory

I have made a script to open Spotify with wine: #!/bin/bash DIR="/home/jorgsk/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Spotify/" cd "$DIR" wine spotify.exe 2>/dev/null I'm passing "$DIR" to cd with quotes because of the whitespace in "Program Files"; if I don't have the quotes "/home/jorgsk/.wine/drive_c/Programs" will be considered as the argumen...

PHP: remove extra space from a string using regex

How do I remove extra spaces at the end of a string using regex (preg_replace)? $string = "some random text with extra spaces at the end "; ...

How do I read white space using scanf in c?

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how do i remove leading whitespace chars from ruby heredoc

Hi All, I'm having a problem with a Ruby heredoc i'm trying to make. It's returning the leading whitespace from each line even though i'm including the - operator, which is supposed to suppress all leading whitespace characters. my method looks like this: def distinct_count <<-EOF \tSELECT \t CAST('#{name}' AS V...

Shortest way to break-up long string (add whitespace) after 60 chars?

I'm processing a bunch of strings and displaying them on a web page. Unfortunately if a string contains a word that is longer than 60 chars it makes my design implode. Therefore i'm looking for the easiest, most efficient way to add a whitespace after every 60 chars without whitespaces in a string in python. I only came up with clunk...

preg_replace: how do I strip off all white space and &nbsp;?

Hi, how do I strip off all white space and &nbsp;? I have this as a input in a wrapper I create, [b] &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; bold &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [/b] so before turning the text to bold, i want to strip off all white spaces and &nbsp, and turn it into [b]bold[/b], $this->content = preg_replace("/\[(.*?)\]\s\s+(.*?)\s\s+\[\/(.*?)\]...

Escape whitespace when using backticks.

I've had a search around, and from my perspective using backticks is the only way I can solve this problem. I'm trying to call the mdls command from Perl for each file in a directory to find it's last accessed time. The issue I'm having is that in the file names I have from find I have unescaped spaces which bash obviously doesn't like. ...

How to not output whitespace in xslt for an element that has attributes

I have an xslt document and I want to output an anchor (a) tag with some attributes who's values depend on other things.. Thus, I use the xsl:attribute tag with a choose/if underneath it (or vice-versa).. So my code looks like this: <a href="/somepage.html"> <xsl:if test="current_page='this_page'"> <xsl:attribute name='class'>activ...