diff -r 000000000000 -r bde4ae8d615e os/textandloc/textandlocutils/sortutil/src/SortUtilImpl.cpp
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+++ b/os/textandloc/textandlocutils/sortutil/src/SortUtilImpl.cpp	Fri Jun 15 03:10:57 2012 +0200
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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). 
+* All rights reserved.
+* This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+* under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+* which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+*
+* Initial Contributors:
+* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+*
+* Contributors:
+*
+* Description:     
+*
+*/
+
+
+
+
+
+
+// INCLUDE FILES
+#include "SortUtilImpl.h"
+
+namespace SortUtilImpl
+    {
+
+    inline TPtrC StripLeadingWhiteSpace_inline(const TDesC& aText)
+    {
+    const TText* p = aText.Ptr();
+    const TText* const end = p + aText.Length();
+    for (; p != end; ++p)
+        {
+        if (!TChar(*p).IsSpace())
+            {
+            return aText.Mid(p - aText.Ptr());
+            }
+        }
+    // All of aText was whitespace: return empty string
+    return TPtrC();
+    }
+
+    TPtrC StripLeadingWhiteSpace(const TDesC& aText)
+        {
+        return StripLeadingWhiteSpace_inline(aText);
+        }
+    
+    TPtrC FindNextNonEmptyKey
+            (const MSortKeyArray& aKeys, 
+            TSortKeyType aType, 
+            TInt& aIndex)
+        {
+        TPtrC result;
+        while (aIndex < aKeys.SortKeyCount())
+            {
+            const TSortKey key(aKeys.SortKeyAt(aIndex));
+            ++aIndex;
+            if (key.Type() == aType)
+                {
+                result.Set(StripLeadingWhiteSpace_inline(key.Text()));
+                if (result.Length() > 0)
+                    {
+                    return result;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        return result;
+        }
+
+    }  // namespace SortUtilImpl
+
+// End of file