Re: How to trim a line from leading and trailing blanks without using regex or non-standard modules

> which clearly is an abuse of regex.

Why is it an abuse of regex?

Problem is that \s is a meta character for any white-space not only blank " " , but only usable inside regex.°

So if you want the exact same semantic, it'll become far more complicated than this regex.

But better define your own trim() using a regex inside.

Cheers Rolf
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Re^2: How to trim a line from leading and trailing blanks without using regex or non-standard modules by likbez (Sexton) on Aug 14, 2020 at 19:39 UTC
So if you want the exact same semantic, it'll become far more complicated than this regex. I agree. That's a good point. Thank you ! In other words it is not easy to design a good trim function without regex, but it is possible to design one that used regex, but treating the single quoted string as a special case For example trim(' ',$line) vs trim(/\s/.$line) BTW this is impossible in Python which implements regex via library, unless you add a new lexical type to the Language (regex string instead of raw string that is used).	[reply]
Re^3: How to trim a line from leading and trailing blanks without using regex or non-standard modules by LanX (Saint) on Aug 15, 2020 at 01:04 UTC
> `trim(/\s/.$line)` I doubt this is valid syntax. you probably mean `trim( qr/\s/, $line)` see Re^3: How to trim a line from leading and trailing blanks without using regex or non-standard modules for a slightly better implementation > this is impossible in Python passing regex inside a string is fine in Perl, why not in Python? Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l] [select]