2009/12/20 sftriman <dal...@gmail.com>: > I use this series of regexp all over the place to clean up lines of > text: > > $x=~s/^\s+//g; > $x=~s/\s+$//g; > $x=~s/\s+/ /g; >
You can probably use $x=~s/^(\s+)|(\s+)$//g; But I don't think it will use any less CPU than the 3 regex option, the nature of Perl's regex engine being what it is. -- Erez "The government forgets that George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, and not a blueprint" http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/ -- http://www.whyweprotest.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
