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Maybe I'm just being lazy though.

Maybe I'm just being lazy though.

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[–] xyzzy 1 points (+1|-0) 6 years ago

A trim() is usually a good thing when handling user input. I spent too many hours of my life fixing problems caused by not using it.

[–] ScorpioGlitch [OP] 0 points (+0|-0) 6 years ago

Programmer Pro-tip #127: Language depending, Trim() has a parameter override allowing you to trim more than just spaces.

Javascript doesn't have this but you can easily write a method to replace the default trim method so that you can do this.

[–] xyzzy 1 points (+1|-0) 6 years ago

In my worst situation a .trim would haven trimmed all whitespace, but it wasn't used since there was a character limit. Too bad users copied from emails including a few dozen newlines at the end.

Wasn't hard to fix, but hard to find.