Talk:Strip a set of characters from a string: Difference between revisions

:: I didn't change case, I preserved it. But some people think that a character may be the same as a letter, and that's ambigous, letters can be upper or lowercase. It still doesn't hurt to state that. I realize that one can assume a lot from omissions, but not necessarily correct assumptions. It's only obvious to the person writing (er, not writing) the omissions. If the example wasn't shown, I would've assume ''strip'' meant to remove any ''outer'' characters, not ''inner'' characters. A lot of people have many assumptions about the words used, especially those languages which have a   '''strip''' bif  BIF.   I would've used ''Remove a set of characters from a string''. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 20:56, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

:::: You've noted '''a''' restriction (which isn't checked for; if the any of the restrictions exist, the program produces the wrong result --- if this version is inferior to a previous version, it should be corrected or removed, in my opinion).   The problem with other whitespace is that the '''space''' bifBIF removes them (because they are considered blanks).   Change the period (within the string) to a period followed by six tab characters and note the result(s). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 23:01, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

::::::: Regina REXX's PDF documentation says it uses blanks (whitespace) for most BIFs, but doesn't (it just uses spaces).   I've considered submitting a bug (or multiple bugs), but I don't believe that's the correct havior as it may break older programs --- this was a topic of heated debate a decade earlier or so); ROO and R4 do treat blanks as whitespace, at least more consistently   (I haven't test a multitude of others).   Note that (in some REXXes) whitespace is/are blanks, and blanks are spaces and several other characters such as tabs, VT, HT, LF, CR, FF, etc.   The list of which characters are considered blanks is rather vague and not comprehensive.   Older REXX interpreters only use the space character for a blank.   This most likely includes CMS REXX and TSO REXX, oRexx, the CMS and TSO REXX compiler, ooRexx, PC/REXX, and Personal REXX.