This should work!
Can you give us a bit more context?
To be precise:
$title = "The Linux Programmer's Guide ";
$title =~ s/\s*$//;
That works.
If you don't get "The Linux Programmer's Guide" there has to
be something wrong in the code around that bit.
cr
On Fri, 18 May 2001 12:08:25 -0400, David Merrill said:
> 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?
>
> TIA,
>
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