Extra spaces in {linkText}

[RicardoNunoSilva]

About the new {linkText} option in Template, I've been noticing it sometimes includes annoying leading blank spaces.

Example: I have a template like this:
{linkText}
{url}

In this page http://www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/5211327406/
there are some links in the sidebar to the right.
Try to use the above Template to copy the link "Caterpillars of the world", and it will give you this:

                                    Caterpillars of the world
                (Álbum: 104)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/sets/72157627461869613/with/5211327406/

I was hoping for something like:

Caterpillars of the world
(Álbum: 104)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/sets/72157627461869613/with/5211327406/

or

Caterpillars of the world (Álbum: 104)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/sets/72157627461869613/with/5211327406/

You may want to check this :)
Maybe you can trim all leading spaces (ie. in the start of the string)?
Thanks.

[airmrcr]

Instead of always trimming linkText I'd prefer to provide a set of string manipulation operations that can be used in conjunction with any other variables etc. I'm surprised I haven't done this sooner.

Operations (I'm using underscores (_) in the examples to represent spaces):

• trim
  • "__foo__" -> "foo"
• trimLeft
  • "__foo__" -> "foo__"
• trimRight
  • "__foo__" -> "__foo"
• upperCase
  • "foo" -> "FOO"
• lowerCase
  • "FOO" -> "foo"
• length
  • "foo" -> 3
  • Not sure how useful this will be
• capitalize/capitalise
  • "foo_bar" -> "Foo_Bar"
• tidy
  • "__foo___bar__" -> "_foo_bar_"
  • replace(/([ \t]+)/g, ' ')
  • This will reduce all spaces and tabs into a single space

Using tidy should achieve what you're looking for;

{#tidy}{linkText}{/tidy}

What do you think?

[RicardoNunoSilva]

Enabling the use of "string operators" on your Template extension seems a great idea to me.
It offers more flexibility and post-processing control for end-users, while maintaining simplicity.

[airmrcr]

I still need to work out a workaround/fix for #97 before I can add any changes as it's preventing any additions to Template. I'll concentrate on that now and then I'll get to work on this. I might change tidy so that the result is also trimmed, removing the need to wrap {tidy} in {trim}.

[airmrcr]

This is now live in development and I'm happy with the results of testing after fixing a few bugs so I'll be including this in an update later today.