% Remove white space from EEG alphanumeric event codes
% 
% Usage
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% EEG = wspacekiller(EEG)
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% Input:
% EEG     - continous dataset with alphanumeric event codes
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% Output
% EEG     - continous dataset with white-space characters removed from alphanumeric event codes
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% Author: Javier Lopez-Calderon
% Center for Mind and Brain
% University of California, Davis,
% Davis, CA
% January 25th, 2011
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% Thanks to Erik St Louis and Lucas Dueffert for their valuable feedbacks.
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function EEG = wspacekiller(EEG, warn)

if nargin<1
      help wspacekiller
      return
end
if nargin<2
      warn = 1; % warning on
end
nevent = length(EEG.event);
if nevent<1
      error('ERPLAB:eventsnotfound', 'Event codes were not found!')
end
try
      for i=1:nevent
            if ischar(EEG.event(i).type)
                  EEG.event(i).type = strrep(strtrim(EEG.event(i).type),' ','');
            end
      end
catch
      if warn
            fprintf('WARNING: wspacekiller() could not clean white spaces from your event codes. Please, check event consistency...\n');
      end
end