Ahh!! Thanks for help. That did it.
-Scott
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On Aug 7, Scott Martin said:
>I am
On Aug 7, Scott Martin said:
>I am stumped, none of these are working. I even tried something like
>$url=~s/\t*^\.htm/\.htm/g
Well, that is totally broken, so don't worry.
> $url =~ s///gs;#removes accidental in the file
That /s modifier is totally useless there.
> $url
again for everyones help!
-Scott
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Subject: RE: Remove White Space
make sure you are also getting rid of t
On Aug 6, Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1 said:
>That would do it. Without the 's' in front of the regex, it doesn't know
>you're trying to search and replace.
>
>The divide error is odd, and shouldn't be happening, but try this instead:
> s(\s*)()g
The divide-by-zero error was because writing
Hi,
I think that you can do it like this:
s/^/ //g;
will work (or should work) in SED, so I assume that it
will in Perl also.
HTH,
Thomas Adam
--- Scott Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
How can I remove white space from the beginning of a
> variable?
>
> -Scott
>
>
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Thomas
Actually, \s takes care of any whitespace, including tabs.
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make su
make sure you are also getting rid of tabs
$var=~s/\t*^//g
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To: 'Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1'
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Subject: RE: Remove White Space
No error messages or anything, but the white space is still in there. I
did, however change the syntax to
$var=~ s/\s*//g;
From
$var=~/\s*//g;
Because I got
At 01:49 PM 8/6/2001 -0700, Wagner-David wrote:
> Should be ^ not $ to remove leading and \s+$ to remove trailing.
To quote a famous philosopher:
D'OH
(The hamster falls off the wheel if he's not paying attention)
My bad and my sincere apologies.. Thanks for the correction.
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What happens when you try?
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What happens when you try?
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That's what I thought it would be but still no luc
That's what I thought it would be but still no luck.
-Scott
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$var=~/\s*//g; # ;)
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$var=~/\s*//g; # ;)
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From: Scott Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 3:56 PM
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Subject: RE: Remove White Space
After I sent it out, I actually came up with the idea myself after some
digging. (go figure) any case, I am now
Should be ^ not $ to remove leading and \s+$ to remove trailing.
Wags ;)
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At 04:13 PM 8/6/2001 -0400, Scott
any ideas?
-Scott
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At 04:13 PM 8/6/2001 -0400, Scott Martin wrote:
>How can I remove white space from the beginning of a variable?
$variable =~ s/$\s+//;
removes one or more spaces in the beginning
HTH
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$var=~s/^\s*//;
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How can I remove white space from the beginning of a variable?
-Scott
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> How can I remove white space from the beginning of a variable?
This is a FAQ:
perldoc -q strip
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substitute whitespace for nothing while matching the beginning of the
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> How can I remove white space from the beginning of a variable?
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