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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 23:06:55 +1100
Subject: Re: whitespace cleanup
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Andrea Crotti
<andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well it's not so simple, I clearly don't want to strip out whitespace in the
> beginning of the line,
> or my nice code will break miserably ;)

The question is: What is "wrong" whitespace? Whatever you declare to
be wrong, you can probably come up with a regexp or other spec that
will catch it (or conversely, declare some pattern to be "right" and
look for anything else).

ChrisA