Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > We could have lstrip and rstrip as you suggested and perhaps make it work > together too. But I see this going off the scope of this series. Maybe > I'll follow up > with another series introducing these features. Since we can currently > make do with > 'strip=2' I'll drop this patch from v8 of this series and pursue this > idea after this. My primary point was that if we know we want to add "rstrip" later and still decide not to add it right now, it is OK, but we will regret it if we named the one we are going to add right now "strip". That will mean that future users, when "rstrip" is introduced, will end up having to choose between "strip" and "rstrip" (as opposed to "lstrip" and "rstrip"), wondering why left-variant is more important and named without left/right prefix.