Changeset 570 in lmdz_wrf for trunk/tools

Timestamp:

Jul 6, 2015, 3:28:45 PM (10 years ago)

Author:

lfita

Message:

Adding `reduce_last_spaces': Function to reduce the last right spaces from a string

File:

• trunk/tools/nc_var_tools.py (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/tools/nc_var_tools.py

@@ -16375 +16375 @@
     return fvalues
 
+def reduce_last_spaces(string):
+    """ Function to reduce the last right spaces from a string
+      string= string to remove the spaces at the righ side of the string
+    >>> reduce_last_spaces('Hola Lluis      ')
+    'Hola Lluis'
+    """
+    fname = 'reduce_last_spaces'
+
+    Lstring = len(string)
+
+    firstspace = -1
+    for istr in range(Lstring-1,0,-1):
+        if string[istr:istr+1] == ' ':
+            firstspace = istr
+        else:
+            break
+
+    if firstspace == -1:
+        print errormsg
+        print '  ' + fname + ": string '" + string + "' is not ended by spaces!!"
+        print '    char. number of last character:',ord(string[Lstring:Lstring+1])
+        quit(-1)
+
+    newstr = string[0:firstspace]
+
+    return newstr
+
 #quit()