Chas. Owens wrote: > > What is so hard about > > $string =~ s/^[ ]*(.*)[ ]*$/$1/;
It's not hard, it just won't strip trailing spaces because your captured string has a greedy quantifier! I usually use s/^\s+//, s/\s+$// for $string; Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
