Mark Martinec wrote:
> Per,
>
>> I have a bit of SA code where I strip leading and trailing whitespace
>> -
>> foreach (@addrs) { s/^\s*([^\s]+)\s*$/\1/; }
>> Whenever I run this I get the warning "\1 better written as $1" which
>> I understand to be perl telling me that the right side of s/// should
>> use $digit, not \digit. I tried changing it to $1, but that didn't
>> produce the expected result. What would be the correct way to write
>> this?
>
> The above assumes there are no spaces withing the string - and
> does nothing if there are.
There are no spaces in the string, it's an email address. I did try
using $1 on the right side of the s///, but it didn't work.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
