On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Brent Laabs <bsla...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the optimal way would be: > > my $s = 'yada yada'; > > That way the program won't have to trim the whitespace off the string every > time it is run. > > In the more general case, I might do it something like: > > my $s = something-returning-a-string().trim;
Good point, Brent, thanks! Best, -Tom