On Wednesday, August 5, 2015, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I see that to trim white space from a strings's both ends I have to do this: >> >> my $s = ' yada yada '; >> $s = $s.trim; >> >> Is that the optimum way? > > I don't know what you mean by "optimal" there, but you can say something like > > $s .= trim;
Brandon, can you (or anyone else) please explain the statement above? I don't find '.=' in the operator list. Thanks. Best, -Tom
