code review 13469045: testing: strip per-line whitespace during example outpu...

testing: strip per-line whitespace during example output comparison

Fixes issue 6416.

[josharian, 2013-12-14 02:16:07]

Hello adg@golang.org (cc: golang-dev@googlegroups.com),

I'd like you to review this change to
https://code.google.com/p/go

[r, 2013-12-14 03:26:27]

Why?

[josharian, 2013-12-14 16:05:55]

On 2013/12/14 03:26:27, r wrote:
> Why?

I wanted to write an example whose output was raw http. That requires trailing
whitespace (\r) on the output lines, but gofmt strips trailing whitespace.

[r, 2013-12-14 16:07:44]

That sounds like a reason to write special code for that example, not
change the semantics of all examples' output matching.

-rob

[josharian, 2013-12-14 16:14:02]

> That sounds like a reason to write special code for that example, not
> change the semantics of all examples' output matching.

Fair enough. Will you update
https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=6416?

[josharian, 2013-12-14 17:02:31]

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