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From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler at peppler dot org>
Subject: RE: where does it come from? help please.
Date: Sep 27 1999 6:30PM
Xin_Li@WellspringRes.com writes:
> What's the meaning of $ in /\s*$/
End of the string. The reg-exp means "all the whitespace at the end of
the string"
Michael
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simon Haven [SMTP:Simon.Haven@wdr.com]
> > Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 1:05 PM
> > To: SybPerl Discussion List
> > Subject: Re: where does it come from? help please.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > But in this case, if some one has space(s) at the end in his/her
> > password,
> > > it fails...
> >
> > No it won't fail, it's doing exactly what rtrim() would do.
> > /\s*$/ will find zero or more occurrences of whitespace before the end of
> > line.
> > However, if I read my definition of "\s" right in the Camel book, it WILL
> > remove the newline - which may not be a problem, but might be worth
> > knowing.
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > >
> > > Murali
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Michael Peppler [SMTP:mpeppler@peppler.org]
> >
> >
> > > >
> > > > > NB, make sure you're using chop, not chomp, which only removes a
> > > > newline.
> > > >
> > > > Use s/// instead of chop (eg $var =~ s/\s*$//;)
> > > >
> > > > Michael
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