How do I trim a text taken from a file by \input?

Asked Feb 17 '21 at 05:50

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Here is my document:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hello, \input{name.txt}!
\end{document}

My file name.txt has a single line Jeff\n (with EOL at the end).

It's rendered to: Hello, Jeff !. How do I remove the space after Jeff?

asked Feb 17 '21 at 05:50

yegor256

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Does this answer your question? Space inserted after "\input" call. Especially see this answer. – Roland Feb 17 '21 at 06:06
You could also try using \! to step back one character, as it were. – Ingmar Feb 17 '21 at 06:06
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or just \unskip before ! – Roland Feb 17 '21 at 06:12
@Ingmar \! is not the same size as a word space. – David Carlisle Feb 17 '21 at 09:46
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@DavidCarlisle. Yes, my bad. It's actually -0,16667em, so it'd probably take 6 of them. Other solutions are certainly more elegant. – Ingmar Feb 17 '21 at 10:15

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