http://simonwillison.net/2008-07-01T14:50:43+00:00Simon Willison2008-07-01T14:50:43+00:002008-07-01T14:50:43+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/1/lucumr/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://lucumr.pocoo.org/cogitations/2008/07/01/whitespace-sensitivity/">Whitespace Sensitivity</a></strong></p> Amusingly, Ruby is actually far more sensitive about whitespace than Python is. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/armin-ronacher">armin-ronacher</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ruby">ruby</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/whitespace">whitespace</a></p>

2008-02-03T22:12:25+00:002008-02-03T22:12:25+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Feb/3/faster/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/faster-trim-javascript">Faster JavaScript Trim</a></strong></p> 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. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/optimisation">optimisation</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/steven-levithan">steven-levithan</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/trim">trim</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/whitespace">whitespace</a></p>