From cb90758109c5dea6be507c42007334f7cf76b1ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lemmy <studio@quadbyte.net>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 20:21:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] string_utils: trimLeftView and trimRightView

---
 src/util/string_utils.h | 22 +++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/util/string_utils.h b/src/util/string_utils.h
index 9b94c2e1e..5c804aa8c 100644
--- a/src/util/string_utils.h
+++ b/src/util/string_utils.h
@@ -7,18 +7,22 @@
 
 namespace StringUtils {
 
-  [[nodiscard]] inline std::string trim(std::string_view s) {
-    std::size_t start = 0;
-    while (start < s.size() && std::isspace(static_cast<unsigned char>(s[start])) != 0) {
-      ++start;
+  [[nodiscard]] inline std::string_view trimLeftView(std::string_view s) {
+    while (!s.empty() && std::isspace(static_cast<unsigned char>(s.front())) != 0) {
+      s.remove_prefix(1);
     }
-    std::size_t end = s.size();
-    while (end > start && std::isspace(static_cast<unsigned char>(s[end - 1])) != 0) {
-      --end;
-    }
-    return std::string(s.substr(start, end - start));
+    return s;
   }
 
+  [[nodiscard]] inline std::string_view trimRightView(std::string_view s) {
+    while (!s.empty() && std::isspace(static_cast<unsigned char>(s.back())) != 0) {
+      s.remove_suffix(1);
+    }
+    return s;
+  }
+
+  [[nodiscard]] inline std::string trim(std::string_view s) { return std::string(trimRightView(trimLeftView(s))); }
+
   [[nodiscard]] inline std::string toLower(std::string_view s) {
     std::string out(s);
     std::transform(out.begin(), out.end(), out.begin(),