That's some good stuff. can you run a benchmark against these, contributed by others on this list, as well?
$username =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/; $username =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/; thanks, -rkl > I ran some benchmarks. > > The two-liner outperformed the one-liners by a 10 to 1 ratio. Code and > results below. > > > Benchmark: timing 100000 iterations of OneLine, OneLine2, TwoLines... > OneLine: 41 wallclock secs (39.30 usr + 0.00 sys = 39.30 CPU) @ > 2544.79/s > OneLine2: 34 wallclock secs (32.58 usr + 0.00 sys = 32.58 CPU) @ > 3069.56/s > TwoLines: 3 wallclock secs ( 2.58 usr + 0.00 sys = 2.58 CPU) @ > 38789.76/s > > > use strict; > use Benchmark; > > my $val = " " . ("foo" x 200) . " "; > > timethese(100_000, { > 'OneLine' => sub{trimOne($val)}, > 'OneLine2' => sub{trimOne2($val)}, > 'TwoLines' => sub{trimTwo($val)}, > }); > > sub trimOne { > my $s = shift; > $s =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g; > die $s unless ($s eq ("foo"x200)); > } > > sub trimOne2 { > my $s = shift; > $s =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/g; > die unless ($s eq "foo"x200); > } > > sub trimTwo { > my $s = shift; > $s =~ s/^\s+//; > $s =~ s/\s+$//; > die unless ($s eq "foo"x200); > } > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 8:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: remove blanks > > > Is there a func or a onliner for removing blanks from both ends? > > I'm using these: > > $username =~ s/^\s+//; > $username =~ s/\s+$//; > > There got to be one out there! > > thanks, > -rkl > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]