[ic] Strip spaces from email
Mike Heins
mike at perusion.com
Wed Apr 14 10:38:28 EDT 2004
Quoting Ethan E. Rowe (ethan at the-rowes.com):
> Susan Misnick wrote:
>
> >Hi, I'd like to strip leading or trailing spaces from the email field,
> >which seems very straightforward, but I can't figure out where to put
> >the code. Hints?
> >Thanks,
> >Susan
>
> It depends on what action is being performed; if this is in relation to
> posting an order to the database, one thing would be to put it in
> /etc/log_transaction. However, if you want to do something in a less
> sensitive area, you could put a little [perl]...[/perl] block in the
> form profile with a regular expression to trim the leading spaces. I'm
> still on the steep part of the Interchange learning curve myself,
> however, so it's highly possible somebody could offer you a more elegant
> solution.
It's as easy as:
[value name=email filter=strip]
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Mike Heins
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