strip proceeding / trailing whitespace by luke

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static const string scWhiteSpace = " \t\r\n\v\f"; /* WARNING: The standard white-space characters are the following: space, tab, carriage-return, newline, vertical tab, and form-feed in the C locale. This is currently irrespective of the current locale. In the C locale or in a locale where character type information is not defined, characters are classified according to the rules of the U.S. ASCII 7-bit coded character set. */ void stripLeadingWhiteSpace(string& token) {     string::size_type firstNonWhiteSpace = token.find_first_not_of(scWhiteSpace);     if(firstNonWhiteSpace != string::npos)     {         token = token.substr(firstNonWhiteSpace);     } } void stripTrailingWhiteSpace(string& token) {     string::size_type lastNonWhiteSpace = token.find_last_not_of(scWhiteSpace);     if(lastNonWhiteSpace != string::npos)     {         token = token.substr(0, lastNonWhiteSpace);     } }