[oak perl] Simple Question re Zapping Blanks

[Michael Ruggiero]

#a regex wil work; 
#replace starting & ending spaces w/ nothing

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

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From: oakland-bounces at pm.org [mailto:oakland-bounces at pm.org] On Behalf
Of Eugene
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 2:17 PM
To: oakland at pm.org
Subject: [oak perl] Simple Question re Zapping Blanks

In Perl,
what's the best way (or a good way, anyway) to zap leading and trailing
blanks in a string?

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