At 12:44 30.10.2002 -0500, Stephens, Wes (N-Sybase) wrote:
Is there a string manipulation function to automatically trim leading and
trailing whitespaces?
No, but do it with regex:
$string =cat and dog ;
# trim beginning ws
$string =~ s/^\s+//;
# trim ending ws
$string =~ s/\s+$//;
: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 7:44 PM
To: ActivePerl (E-mail); Perl-Win32-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Trimming Leading and Trailing Whitespaces
Is there a string manipulation function to automatically trim leading and
trailing whitespaces?
For example:
Problem:
$string =cat and dog
$string = cat and dog;
$string =~ s/^\s+(.*)\s+$/$1/;
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From: Stephens, Wes (N-Sybase) [mailto:wes.stephens;lmco.com]
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: Trimming Leading and Trailing Whitespaces
$string =cat and dog ;
$string =~ s,^\s+(.+?)\s+$,$1,;
print $string;
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, on Wednesday, October 30, 2002 1:11 PM
: Doesn't Perl have Trim function?
Obviously you're confusing Perl with VB. B^)
Joe
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