On Jun 26, David Gilden said:
>Is the following regrex the correct way to remove leading or trailing
>white space from a string?
Use two passes.
>$data =~ s/^\s+)//;
>$data =~ s/\s+$)//;
Err, extra )'s in there.
$data =~ s/^\s+//;
$data =~ s/\s+$//;
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