On Dec 12, 2003, at 11:51 AM, Dan Anderson wrote:
Is there a way to chomp all whitespace both at the beginning and end of a string? I was thinking of using a regexp like s[^\s*?][]sg and s[\s*?$][]sg; Is there a better way? (I'm thinking of PHP's trim function)
the traditional path is
$line =~ s/^\s+//;
$line =~ s/\s+$//;but you could always try say
$thingie =~ s/^\s*\b(.*)\b\s*/$1/;
cf: perldoc perlre
ciao drieux
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