On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:38:50AM -0500, John Joseph Trammell wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:08:25PM -0400, David Merrill wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm working on my very first perl application, which is a front end to
> > a database for the LDP. I am trying to truncate a string, using:
> >
> > $title =~ s/\s*$//;
> >
> > where $title = "The Linux Programmer's Guide "
> >
> > and it is being truncated after the ' mark. All I want to do is remove
> > the trailing spaces from the string. Can someone please help?
>
> I am unable to duplicate your problem:
>
> [ bayazid ~ ] perl
> $title = "The Linux Programmer's Guide ";
> $title =~ s/\s*$//;
> print "=>$title<=\n";
> ^D
> =>The Linux Programmer's Guide<=
> [ bayazid ~ ]
>
> Have you read the FAQ? Please post the actual code causing the problem.
Yep, you're right. I misdiagnosed the problem entirely. What's
*really* happening is the the HTML I'm generating comes out:
<input type=text value='The Linux Programmer's Guide'>
which as you can see, is truncating the contents of the input field.
It's not a perl problem at all. Sorry to bother you.
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