David Gilden wrote:
I am trying to trim white space, at the front and end of a string. The following is not working....#!/usr/bin/perl$name = " Dave Gilden "; $name =~ s/^\s*([\w .-]{1,120})\s*$/$1/; print "|$name|"; # This gets the front but not the back!
You're only doing it once:
s{}{}
you need to do it "globally":
s{}{}g
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