string manipulation question

[Kenneth Brody]

Kenneth Brody wrote:
[...]
> So, back to my original "second question to ponder", given the fact that
> the first edit will fail without the trailing-space removal, due to the
> reason you pointed out:
> 
>     Why does this not fail, even though we are not stripping trailing spaces?

Actually, this question is probably asked the other way around:

    Why does the first edit (the one that expands the single quotes) need
    to have trailing spaces removed, while many of the edits in the global
    table do not, even though they add characters to the output?

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