Felix Geerinckx wrote:

> on Mon, 27 May 2002 13:01:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harry
> Jackson) wrote:
>
> >   s/\s+$//g;
>
> As explained by Sudarsan Raghavan, the 'g' modifier is not necessary.
> The '+' in '\s+' gobbles up all trailing whitespace.

You can refer to me as just Sudarsan :-)

>
>
> > $\ is a global which hold your end of line terminator (I think)
>
> In fact, '$\' is the output record separator, in other words the
> character (sequence) Perl prints after each 'print' statement. It is
> undefined by default (i.e. nothing "extra" gets printed).
>
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