Hello Dave -
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Dave Kitabjian wrote:
> We have a surprising number of "No such user" failures which appear to be
> caused by leading or trailing spaces around the username. In Unix, I would
> fix this as:
>
> echo " dave " | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ *$//'
>
> Since I don't know perl, I'm not sure how to test this without going live,
> so I was wondering if someone could confirm the proper perl/radiator
> syntax. My guess is:
>
> RewriteUsername s/^ *//
> RewriteUsername s/ *$//
>
> Is this correct? Thanks all! (Btw, how *would* I test this with perl?)
>
Try this:
RewriteUsername s/\s//g
In other words, "substitute (s) whitespace (/\s/) to nothing (//) everywhere
(g - globally) in the line.
To find out how to do it in Perl, I suggest the Llama book (Learning Perl from
O'Reilly & Associates - www.ora.com).
hth
Hugh
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