in reply to Re^2: How to trim a line from leading and trailing blanks without using regex or non-standard modules
in thread How to trim a line from leading and trailing blanks without using regex or non-standard modules

>  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
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