in reply to Appending a single Scalar after a match

Um. This? $t =~ /^\s*(.*?)\s*$/g and $k .= $1

Though it puzzles me why you are using /g if you only want the first match?

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Re^2: Appending a single Scalar after a match
by SavannahLion (Pilgrim) on May 25, 2015 at 15:16 UTC

    Hhhmmm... good point. I must have had a good reason when I originally wrote it and didn't remove it the last time I updated the script. So updated.

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