Chas. Owens wrote:

> [trim]
$string =~ s/^[ ]*(.*)[ ]*$/$1/;

That changes the string when not necessary.

I prefer this:


    s/\s+$//, s/^\s+// for $string;  # rtrim + ltrim

--
Ruud

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