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From: Xin_Li at WellspringRes dot com
Subject: Remove Leading Whitespaces
Date: Sep 27 1999 6:41PM
Thanks. But if I want to remove the leading spaces or whitespaces, how
should I do?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Peppler [SMTP:mpeppler@peppler.org]
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 2:30 PM
> To: SybPerl Discussion List
> Subject: RE: where does it come from? help please.
>
> 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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