Simon Willison’s Weblog

Whitespace Sensitivity. Amusingly, Ruby is actually far more sensitive about whitespace than Python is.

# 1st July 2008, 2:50 pm / armin-ronacher, python, ruby, whitespace

Faster JavaScript Trim. Neat optimisation post—it turns out that while regular expressions are great for removing leading whitespace you can do a lot better at trailing whitespace by manually looping backwards from the end of the string.

# 3rd February 2008, 10:12 pm / javascript, optimisation, steven-levithan, trim, whitespace