On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:01:36 +0000, Peter Scott wrote:
> Unless it's written by someone whose Perl learning stopped with Perl 4.
Scratch that, I was so focussed on the body of the subroutine I forgot the
context.
> sub trim { $_[0] =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/ }
my $trim = sub { $_[0] =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/ };
I suppose it is used to swap in and out of filter chains.
>>> my $trim = sub {local($_)=shift;
>>> $$_ =~ s/^\s*//;
>>> $$_ =~ s/\s*$//;};
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