Thursday 11 June 2009

XCode trailing whitespace

For all the other trailing-whitespace-haters out there, if you would like to remove trailing whitespace from all the files in your XCode project, do a global search replace (Shift+⌘+F) for the following regular expression:

[ \t]+$

In older versions of XCode you have to select all the results before hitting "Replace".

6 comments:

  1. check this out! its a plugin from google toolbox for mac that deletes end line whitespace, and adds eof line if there isnt any.

    http://code.google.com/p/google-toolbox-for-mac/wiki/GTMXcodePlugin

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  2. GTM Xcode Plugin is a godsend! Thanks for the link!

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  3. the problem with the google plugin for xcode is that it corrupts your undo buffer when it fixes your trailing whitespace. frustrating.

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  4. I've found that this particular regex also matches lines that *only* have whitespace, at least in Xcode 3.2.6. Since I'd prefer to only remove trailing whitespace only on lines that also have non-whitespace characters, I needed something else.

    If you replace (?<=\S)[ \t]+$ with an empty string, it will match only lines that have trailing whitespace after one or more non-whitespace characters. Thanks for posting this tip!

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  5. BTW there's an Xcode 4 version of the GTM plugin now. Checkout http://code.google.com/p/google-toolbox-for-mac/wiki/GTMXcodePlugin

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