#!/home/myhomedrive/opt/perl/bin/perl
package customPerlMod;

use strict;
use warnings;

use Exporter 'import';
our @EXPORT_OK = qw(return_month return_day trim ltrim rtrim );


# Perl trim function to remove whitespace from the start and end of the string
sub trim($)
{
    my $string = shift;
    $string =~ s/^\s+//;
    $string =~ s/\s+$//;
    return $string;
}

# Left trim function to remove leading whitespace
sub ltrim($)
{
    my $string = shift;
    $string =~ s/^\s+//;
    return $string;
}

# Right trim function to remove trailing whitespace
sub rtrim($)
{
    my $string = shift;
    $string =~ s/\s+$//;
    return $string;
}

1;