Thanks a ton Gunnar, How about the intermediate blanks? Is there a way to recursively take all blanks/tabs that occur??
word=Detail Design Activity Included# I would like to remove the blanks here.. TIA -Ajey On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > Ajey Kulkarni wrote: > > I would like to remove all the spaces & tabs from a variable. > > No, you wouldn't. You would like to remove possible whitespace from the > beginning and end of a string. > > > my($word) = " Detail Design Activity Included "; > > > > $word =~ s/^\s*(\D*)\s*$/$1/; > > It's best done using two substitutions: > > $word =~ s/^\s+//; > $word =~ s/\s+$//; > > -- > Gunnar Hjalmarsson > Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
