Larry Wall wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 05:04:50AM -0800, Ovid wrote:
: ...the trivial $string.trim and trim($string) case.
Hmm, I'd think .trim should work like .chomp, and return the trimmed
string without changing the original. You'd use $str.=trim to do it
in place.
Can't say I really like the negated options though. They smell funny.
Larry
I'm +1 on adding a trim, I do a lot of csv import (with trimming) in perl 5.
On a side note, between modifying the original and returning a fixed
string, which one would we expect to be faster? And I assume either
would be faster than the regex method of trimming?
-Andy
