Feature Proposal: Variation on TRIM to remove all spaces

Motivation

TRIM reduces multiple spaces to one space. But there needs to be a variant that removes all spaces, e.g. to turn "Hello, world" into "HelloWorld".

I'm looking for the reverse of PROPERSPACE.

Description and Documentation

See Tasks.Item9343

This works:

 %CALC{$TRANSLATE($SUBSTITUTE($TRANSLATE(a string with comma, and spaces, $sp$comma, $CHAR(29)$CHAR(30)), $CHAR(29)), $CHAR(30), $comma)}% 

astringwithcomma,andspaces

but oh my that's too complex!

Examples

Impact

WhatDoesItAffect:

%WHATDOESITAFFECT%

edit

Implementation

-- Contributors: VickiBrown - 11 Sep 2010

Discussion

What you want is a "make wiki word" function. Does it have to be in SSP? SSP syntax has horrible problems with commas in data. A general purpose macro e.g. %MAKEWIKIWORD{"arbitrary string"}% would be fairly trivial to write, and a lot more robust.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 13 Sep 2010

Some of this is already built in the link handling as [[Trim all Spaces]] -> Trim All Spaces does convert this to a wikiword. So exposing that link rendering function could be an option. This would also be consistent with special character handling. and [[Trim & All Spaces]] -> Trim & All Spaces, which generate valid wikiwords internally.

-- GeorgeClark - 14 Mar 2011

For what it's worth, we have ParameterizedVariables now, so - although we do need this new macro, somewhere - you can get by using:

   * Set TRIM = %CALC{$TRANSLATE($SUBSTITUTE($TRANSLATE(%DEFAULT%, $sp$comma, $CHAR(29)$CHAR(30)), $CHAR(29)), $CHAR(30), $comma)}%

Test:

astringwithcomma,andspaces

Edit: Ah, I realized you really want a macro to expose the yet-to-be-completed AddFoswikiFuncWikifyWebTopicName functionality. Adding this proposal for a use-case of that.

-- PaulHarvey - 23 Feb 2012