From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-11-22T02:00:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Removing optional white space - doh! - refined

On 21.11.2009 16:18, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
> 
> For more than one white space char:
> 
> 	string.gsub( /^..:\s*/, '' )

Your original example had whitespace before the "To".  Don't you want to 
get rid of that as well?

Btw, I'd rather name the word explicit, so for me it would be one of

s.sub /To:\s+/, ''
s.sub /^(\s*)To:\s*/, '\\1'

Kind regards

	robert

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