On May 18, David Merrill said:
>$title =~ s/\s*$//;
>
>where $title = "The Linux Programmer's Guide "
>
>and it is being truncated after the ' mark. All I want to do is remove
>the trailing spaces from the string. Can someone please help?
You've already solved your problem about single quotes, but here's
something you might want to change:
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>Your code should be more efficient!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What good is it to remove 0 pieces of whitespace from the end of a
string? I would suggest changing s/\s*$// to s/\s+$// for logic reasons.
It's pointless to remove 0 or more of something from the end of a string,
when you could just remove 1 or more of them.
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