On Friday, August 10, 2001, at 04:30 , Newton, Philip wrote:
> Michel Lambert wrote:
>> 1) What's the fastest way to strip trailing whitespace ( as
>> defined by /\s/ ) from a decent-sized string? Decent-sized
>> means this email, or 100 of these emails concatenated together.
>
> I would imagine
>
> $string =~ /\s+\z/;
>
> ?
What about
$string = reverse $string;
$string =~ s/^\s+//;
$string = reverse $string;
I haven't had any coffee yet this morning, so I'm probably
missing a way to condense that. Time to break out
Benchmark.pm....
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