On Jan 3, McCollum, Frank said:
>There is probably a better way to get rid of the whitespace, but the only
>one that comes to mind is:
>
>s/^s+|s+$//; #replace any leading or ("|") trailing whitespace.
First, that needs to be s/^\s+|\s+$//g. You forgot the \'s as well as the
/g modifier. Second, that regex is 3.5 times faster written as two
separate regexes:
s/^\s+//;
s/\s+$//;
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<stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
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