2 files changed, 139 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/src/pkg/strings/strings.go b/src/pkg/strings/strings.go
index 426855137..0a9f64ca0 100644
--- a/src/pkg/strings/strings.go
+++ b/src/pkg/strings/strings.go
@@ -106,6 +106,17 @@ func LastIndex(s, sep string) int {
 	return -1
 }
 
+// IndexRune returns the index of the first instance of the Unicode code point
+// rune, or -1 if rune is not present in s.
+func IndexRune(s string, rune int) int {
+	for i, c := range s {
+		if c == rune {
+			return i
+		}
+	}
+	return -1
+}
+
 // IndexAny returns the index of the first instance of any Unicode code point
 // from chars in s, or -1 if no Unicode code point from chars is present in s.
 func IndexAny(s, chars string) int {
@@ -309,9 +320,9 @@ func ToTitleSpecial(_case unicode.SpecialCase, s string) string {
 	return Map(func(r int) int { return _case.ToTitle(r) }, s)
 }
 
-// Trim returns a slice of the string s, with all leading and trailing white space
-// removed, as defined by Unicode.
-func TrimSpace(s string) string {
+// TrimLeftFunc returns a slice of the string s with all leading
+// Unicode code points c satisfying f(c) removed.
+func TrimLeftFunc(s string, f func(r int) bool) string {
 	start, end := 0, len(s)
 	for start < end {
 		wid := 1
@@ -319,16 +330,23 @@ func TrimSpace(s string) string {
 		if rune >= utf8.RuneSelf {
 			rune, wid = utf8.DecodeRuneInString(s[start:end])
 		}
-		if !unicode.IsSpace(rune) {
-			break
+		if !f(rune) {
+			return s[start:]
 		}
 		start += wid
 	}
+	return s[start:]
+}
+
+// TrimRightFunc returns a slice of the string s with all trailing
+// Unicode code points c satisfying f(c) removed.
+func TrimRightFunc(s string, f func(r int) bool) string {
+	start, end := 0, len(s)
 	for start < end {
 		wid := 1
-		rune := int(s[end-1])
+		rune := int(s[end-wid])
 		if rune >= utf8.RuneSelf {
-			// Back up carefully looking for beginning of rune. Mustn't pass start.
+			// Back up & look for beginning of rune. Mustn't pass start.
 			for wid = 2; start <= end-wid && !utf8.RuneStart(s[end-wid]); wid++ {
 			}
 			if start > end-wid { // invalid UTF-8 sequence; stop processing
@@ -336,10 +354,53 @@ func TrimSpace(s string) string {
 			}
 			rune, wid = utf8.DecodeRuneInString(s[end-wid : end])
 		}
-		if !unicode.IsSpace(rune) {
-			break
+		if !f(rune) {
+			return s[0:end]
 		}
 		end -= wid
 	}
-	return s[start:end]
+	return s[0:end]
+}
+
+// TrimFunc returns a slice of the string s with all leading
+// and trailing Unicode code points c satisfying f(c) removed.
+func TrimFunc(s string, f func(r int) bool) string {
+	return TrimRightFunc(TrimLeftFunc(s, f), f)
+}
+
+func makeCutsetFunc(cutset string) func(rune int) bool {
+	return func(rune int) bool { return IndexRune(cutset, rune) != -1 }
+}
+
+// Trim returns a slice of the string s with all leading and
+// trailing Unicode code points contained in cutset removed.
+func Trim(s string, cutset string) string {
+	if s == "" || cutset == "" {
+		return s
+	}
+	return TrimFunc(s, makeCutsetFunc(cutset))
+}
+
+// TrimLeft returns a slice of the string s with all leading
+// Unicode code points contained in cutset removed.
+func TrimLeft(s string, cutset string) string {
+	if s == "" || cutset == "" {
+		return s
+	}
+	return TrimLeftFunc(s, makeCutsetFunc(cutset))
+}
+
+// TrimRight returns a slice of the string s, with all trailing
+// Unicode code points contained in cutset removed.
+func TrimRight(s string, cutset string) string {
+	if s == "" || cutset == "" {
+		return s
+	}
+	return TrimRightFunc(s, makeCutsetFunc(cutset))
+}
+
+// TrimSpace returns a slice of the string s, with all leading
+// and trailing white space removed, as defined by Unicode.
+func TrimSpace(s string) string {
+	return TrimFunc(s, unicode.IsSpace)
 }
diff --git a/src/pkg/strings/strings_test.go b/src/pkg/strings/strings_test.go
index eeb64f1e8..6c2bd727d 100644
--- a/src/pkg/strings/strings_test.go
+++ b/src/pkg/strings/strings_test.go
@@ -362,9 +362,76 @@ func TestSpecialCase(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-
 func TestTrimSpace(t *testing.T) { runStringTests(t, TrimSpace, "TrimSpace", trimSpaceTests) }
 
+type TrimTest struct {
+	f               func(string, string) string
+	in, cutset, out string
+}
+
+var trimTests = []TrimTest{
+	TrimTest{Trim, "abba", "a", "bb"},
+	TrimTest{Trim, "abba", "ab", ""},
+	TrimTest{TrimLeft, "abba", "ab", ""},
+	TrimTest{TrimRight, "abba", "ab", ""},
+	TrimTest{TrimLeft, "abba", "a", "bba"},
+	TrimTest{TrimRight, "abba", "a", "abb"},
+	TrimTest{Trim, "<tag>", "<>", "tag"},
+	TrimTest{Trim, "* listitem", " *", "listitem"},
+	TrimTest{Trim, `"quote"`, `"`, "quote"},
+	TrimTest{Trim, "\u2C6F\u2C6F\u0250\u0250\u2C6F\u2C6F", "\u2C6F", "\u0250\u0250"},
+	//empty string tests
+	TrimTest{Trim, "abba", "", "abba"},
+	TrimTest{Trim, "", "123", ""},
+	TrimTest{Trim, "", "", ""},
+	TrimTest{TrimLeft, "abba", "", "abba"},
+	TrimTest{TrimLeft, "", "123", ""},
+	TrimTest{TrimLeft, "", "", ""},
+	TrimTest{TrimRight, "abba", "", "abba"},
+	TrimTest{TrimRight, "", "123", ""},
+	TrimTest{TrimRight, "", "", ""},
+}
+
+func TestTrim(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range trimTests {
+		actual := tc.f(tc.in, tc.cutset)
+		var name string
+		switch tc.f {
+		case Trim:
+			name = "Trim"
+		case TrimLeft:
+			name = "TrimLeft"
+		case TrimRight:
+			name = "TrimRight"
+		default:
+			t.Error("Undefined trim function")
+		}
+		if actual != tc.out {
+			t.Errorf("%s(%q, %q) = %q; want %q", name, tc.in, tc.cutset, actual, tc.out)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+type TrimFuncTest struct {
+	f             func(r int) bool
+	name, in, out string
+}
+
+var trimFuncTests = []TrimFuncTest{
+	TrimFuncTest{unicode.IsSpace, "IsSpace", space + " hello " + space, "hello"},
+	TrimFuncTest{unicode.IsDigit, "IsDigit", "\u0e50\u0e5212hello34\u0e50\u0e51", "hello"},
+	TrimFuncTest{unicode.IsUpper, "IsUpper", "\u2C6F\u2C6F\u2C6F\u2C6FABCDhelloEF\u2C6F\u2C6FGH\u2C6F\u2C6F", "hello"},
+}
+
+func TestTrimFunc(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range trimFuncTests {
+		actual := TrimFunc(tc.in, tc.f)
+		if actual != tc.out {
+			t.Errorf("TrimFunc(%q, %q) = %q; want %q", tc.in, tc.name, actual, tc.out)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func equal(m string, s1, s2 string, t *testing.T) bool {
 	if s1 == s2 {
 		return true