@RTrim[] inconsistence

[jbanaszczyk]

/me again.
Using both TCC17 and TCC/LE:

echo _%@rtrim[" "," word " ]_
_" word_

From the doc: String1 must be enclosed in double quotes if it contains any spaces, tabs, or commas.
I expect, that if String1 is enclosed with double quotes: quotes are not removed, they are required to mark the space.

Escaping space (instead of quoting) doesn't work:

echo _%@rtrim[^s," word " ]_
_" word " _

 

[samintz]

I'm not sure what you are asking for. If you don't want the quotes in the string being trimmed, then remove them.

echo _%@rtrim[" ", word ]_
_ word_

echo _%@rtrim[" ",%@unquote[" word "] ]_
_ word_

However, there is an inconsistency with "blah<space>"<space>. @RTRIM removes the trailing quote, combines the spaces and then removes them. I'm not sure what the "correct" behavior is in that case.

 

[vefatica]

It has nothing to do with the space after the closing quote.

v:\> echo _%@rtrim[" "," word "]_
_" word_

Removing one of a pair of quotes just seems wrong.

 

[dcantor]

It looks to me like the quote marks have no special meaning, that is, they are part of the string, rather than enclosing the string. I found this works:

k> echo _%@rtrim[` `, word ]_
_ word_

 

[jbanaszczyk]

To be sure:
I expected, to get:

echo _%@rtrim[" "," word " ]_
_" word "_

with the most right space removed, and double quotes preserved (not removed).

@dcantor - thanks, it works in that manner:

echo _%@rtrim[` `," word " ]_
_" word "_
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[samintz]

I just relooked at your initial example. You used ^s which I'm not exactly sure what that is. Had you used an actual escaped space '^ ' it would have done the same thing as the back ticks.

echo _%@rtrim[^ ," word " ]_
_" word "_

 

[vefatica]

^s is the escape sequence for a space (as ^n is for a newline, et cetera).

 

[jbanaszczyk]

^s is the escape sequence for a space (as ^n is for a newline, et cetera).

I know, but it looks, that it doesn't work.

echo _%@rtrim[^s," word " ]_
_" word " _

 

[vefatica]

What I think it's doing (wrongly) is treating the closing quote of the first parameter as one the characters to be trimmed.

v:\> echo _%@rtrim[" d"," word "]_
_" wor_

v:\> echo _%@rtrim[" d"," word "d]_
_" wor_