I am not sure if this would be inane to ask. But here is a dilemma:
I have three functions, ltrim, rtrim and trim. As the function names adumbrate, each of them trims white-spaces -- the usual trimming stuff. Since, these functions do not exist in Perl and of course I can club them together in the form of a package and then invoke it, I was wondering if there is a way to make these three functions to go into some "core-box" of Perl, so that they will be seen by my Perl scripts, just similar to say substr, chomp, chop etc that are defined as CORE functions of Perl. In a nutshell, is there a way, where user-defined functions can be "safely" added to my local installation of Perl and make it believe that such user-defined functions to be a part of "standard Perl functions"? Can I invoke such user-defined functions without making an explicit "use MyPackage;" statement? Thanks, Rex --------------------------------- Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost
