I am trying to trim white space, at the front and end of a string.
The following is not working....
#!/usr/bin/perl
$name = " Dave Gilden ";
$name =~ s/^\s*([\w .-]{1,120})\s*$/$1/;
print "|$name|";
# This gets the front but not the back!
$name = " Dave Gilden ";
($name) = ($name =~ m/^\s*([\w .-]{1,120})/);
print "|$name|";
I know there should be a simple way to this via grep....
Thanks in advance for any direction on this problem,
Dave Gilden
(kora musician / audiophile / webmaster @ www.coraconnection.com / Ft. Worth,
TX, USA)
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