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                    2007
                
            
            
                10 Jul
                
                '07
                
            
            
            
        
    
                1:20 a.m.
            
        Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
I'd just manually write a 'tidy' loop (in the Data.ByteString style) (which would avoid all allocations), since it seems pretty useful.
That would indeed be very useful to have as a library function. I've pined for Python's strip() string method (removes leading and trailing whitespace) for a while.