remove blanks

2003-09-29 Thread perl
Is there a func or a onliner for removing blanks from both ends?

I'm using these:

$username =~ s/^\s+//;
$username =~ s/\s+$//;

There got to be one out there!

thanks,
-rkl

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Re: remove blanks

2003-09-29 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 07:04  PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Is there a func or a onliner for removing blanks from both ends?

I'm using these:

$username =~ s/^\s+//;
$username =~ s/\s+$//;
We could combine those:

$username =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/;

Hope that helps.

James

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RE: remove blanks

2003-09-29 Thread Hanson, Rob
I ran some benchmarks.

The two-liner outperformed the one-liners by a 10 to 1 ratio.  Code and
results below.


Benchmark: timing 10 iterations of OneLine, OneLine2, TwoLines...
  OneLine: 41 wallclock secs (39.30 usr +  0.00 sys = 39.30 CPU) @ 2544.79/s
  OneLine2: 34 wallclock secs (32.58 usr +  0.00 sys = 32.58 CPU) @
3069.56/s
  TwoLines:  3 wallclock secs ( 2.58 usr +  0.00 sys =  2.58 CPU) @
38789.76/s


use strict;
use Benchmark;

my $val =  . (foo x 200) . ;

timethese(100_000, {
'OneLine' = sub{trimOne($val)},
'OneLine2' = sub{trimOne2($val)},
'TwoLines' = sub{trimTwo($val)},
});

sub trimOne {
  my $s = shift;
  $s =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
  die $s unless ($s eq (foox200));
}

sub trimOne2 {
  my $s = shift;
  $s =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/g;
  die unless ($s eq foox200);
}

sub trimTwo {
  my $s = shift;
  $s =~ s/^\s+//;
  $s =~ s/\s+$//;
  die unless ($s eq foox200);
}


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Subject: remove blanks


Is there a func or a onliner for removing blanks from both ends?

I'm using these:

$username =~ s/^\s+//;
$username =~ s/\s+$//;

There got to be one out there!

thanks,
-rkl

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Re: remove blanks

2003-09-29 Thread Bob Showalter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Is there a func or a onliner for removing blanks from both ends?

 I'm using these:

 $username =~ s/^\s+//;
 $username =~ s/\s+$//;

 There got to be one out there!

Doing it in two steps is the way to go. Don't try to make one regex out of
it.

I usually write it this way, so I can process several variables at once:

   s/^\s+//, s/\s+$// for $foo, $bar, $baz;



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Re: remove blanks

2003-09-29 Thread perl
this looks convenience

thanks,
-rkl

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Is there a func or a onliner for removing blanks from both ends?

 I'm using these:

 $username =~ s/^\s+//;
 $username =~ s/\s+$//;

 There got to be one out there!

 Doing it in two steps is the way to go. Don't try to make one regex out of
 it.

 I usually write it this way, so I can process several variables at once:

s/^\s+//, s/\s+$// for $foo, $bar, $baz;





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RE: remove blanks

2003-09-29 Thread perl
That's some good stuff.

can you run a benchmark against these, contributed by others on this list,
as well?

$username =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/;
$username =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/;

thanks,
-rkl

 I ran some benchmarks.

 The two-liner outperformed the one-liners by a 10 to 1 ratio.  Code and
 results below.


 Benchmark: timing 10 iterations of OneLine, OneLine2, TwoLines...
   OneLine: 41 wallclock secs (39.30 usr +  0.00 sys = 39.30 CPU) @
 2544.79/s
   OneLine2: 34 wallclock secs (32.58 usr +  0.00 sys = 32.58 CPU) @
 3069.56/s
   TwoLines:  3 wallclock secs ( 2.58 usr +  0.00 sys =  2.58 CPU) @
 38789.76/s


 use strict;
 use Benchmark;

 my $val =  . (foo x 200) . ;

 timethese(100_000, {
 'OneLine' = sub{trimOne($val)},
 'OneLine2' = sub{trimOne2($val)},
 'TwoLines' = sub{trimTwo($val)},
 });

 sub trimOne {
   my $s = shift;
   $s =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
   die $s unless ($s eq (foox200));
 }

 sub trimOne2 {
   my $s = shift;
   $s =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/g;
   die unless ($s eq foox200);
 }

 sub trimTwo {
   my $s = shift;
   $s =~ s/^\s+//;
   $s =~ s/\s+$//;
   die unless ($s eq foox200);
 }


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 Subject: remove blanks


 Is there a func or a onliner for removing blanks from both ends?

 I'm using these:

 $username =~ s/^\s+//;
 $username =~ s/\s+$//;

 There got to be one out there!

 thanks,
 -rkl

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RE: remove blanks

2003-09-29 Thread perl
This is the correct reply.

That's some good stuff.

can you run a benchmark against these, contributed by others on this list,
as well?

$username =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/;
s/^\s+//, s/\s+$// $username;

thanks,
-rkl

 I ran some benchmarks.

 The two-liner outperformed the one-liners by a 10 to 1 ratio.  Code and
 results below.


 Benchmark: timing 10 iterations of OneLine, OneLine2, TwoLines...
   OneLine: 41 wallclock secs (39.30 usr +  0.00 sys = 39.30 CPU) @
 2544.79/s
   OneLine2: 34 wallclock secs (32.58 usr +  0.00 sys = 32.58 CPU) @
 3069.56/s
   TwoLines:  3 wallclock secs ( 2.58 usr +  0.00 sys =  2.58 CPU) @
 38789.76/s


 use strict;
 use Benchmark;

 my $val =  . (foo x 200) . ;

 timethese(100_000, {
 'OneLine' = sub{trimOne($val)},
 'OneLine2' = sub{trimOne2($val)},
 'TwoLines' = sub{trimTwo($val)},
 });

 sub trimOne {
   my $s = shift;
   $s =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
   die $s unless ($s eq (foox200));
 }

 sub trimOne2 {
   my $s = shift;
   $s =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/g;
   die unless ($s eq foox200);
 }

 sub trimTwo {
   my $s = shift;
   $s =~ s/^\s+//;
   $s =~ s/\s+$//;
   die unless ($s eq foox200);
 }


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 Subject: remove blanks


 Is there a func or a onliner for removing blanks from both ends?

 I'm using these:

 $username =~ s/^\s+//;
 $username =~ s/\s+$//;

 There got to be one out there!

 thanks,
 -rkl

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RE: remove blanks

2003-09-29 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Sep 29, Hanson, Rob said:

I ran some benchmarks.

The two-liner outperformed the one-liners by a 10 to 1 ratio.  Code and
results below.

Benchmark: timing 10 iterations of OneLine, OneLine2, TwoLines...
  OneLine: 41 wallclock secs (39.30 usr +  0.00 sys = 39.30 CPU) @ 2544.79/s
  OneLine2: 34 wallclock secs (32.58 usr +  0.00 sys = 32.58 CPU) @
3069.56/s
  TwoLines:  3 wallclock secs ( 2.58 usr +  0.00 sys =  2.58 CPU) @
38789.76/s

You'll get a better representation with the following benchmark:

  #!/usr/bin/perl

  use Benchmark 'cmpthese';

  my $s = . join(  , ('foo') x 100) .;

  cmpthese(-5, {
capture = \capture,
alt = \alt,
two = \two,
two_rev = \two_rev,
  });

  sub capture {
my $copy = $s;
$copy =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/s;
  }

  sub alt {
my $copy = $s;
$copy =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
  }

  sub two {
my $copy = $s;
s/^\s+//, s/\s+$// for $copy;
  }

  sub two_rev {
my $copy = $s;
$copy =~ s/^\s+//;
($copy = reverse $copy) =~ s/^\s+//;
$copy = reverse $copy;
  }

The output is thus:

Benchmark: running alt, capture, two, two_rev for at least 5 CPU seconds
   alt:  5 wallclock secs @   4163.86/s (n= 21777)
   capture:  5 wallclock secs @   4876.60/s (n= 25846)
   two:  6 wallclock secs @  24841.44/s (n=130666)
   two_rev:  5 wallclock secs @ 148958.27/s (n=774583)

Rate alt capture two two_rev
alt   4164/s  ---15%-83%-97%
capture   4877/s 17%  ---80%-97%
two  24841/s497%409%  ---83%


Notice the string this time.  It's got embedded whitespace.  This causes
the '\s+$' regex to perform HORRIBLY.  If you want to see why, try this:

  perl -mre=debug -e 'abc  def  ghi  jkl  mno =~ /\s+$/'

Notice that the string abc  def...  mno doesn't end in whitespace, but
that the engine checks for /\s+$/ at each chunk of whitespace.  Icky
awful.

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