-----Original Message----- >From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Aug 3, 2007 10:37 AM >To: Perl beginners <beginners@perl.org> >Subject: Re: regex help > >Tony Heal wrote: >> Why doesn't this work? I want to take any leading or trailing white spaces >> out. > >perldoc -q "How do I strip blank space" > >
Or generally it could be done by, $string =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g; -- Jeff Pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://home.arcor.de/jeffpang/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/