Strip leading and trailing whitespace from a string.

I was going to post this to the Snippets section but it probably belongs here.

    # Strip leading and trailing whitespace from a string
    $str = unpack "A*", (split ' ', $str, 1)[0];
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Note: this is about 50% slower than the method recommended in perlfaq4.

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John.

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Re: Strip leading and trailing whitespace from a string. by Kanji (Parson) on Nov 06, 2001 at 02:30 UTC
Speaking of perlfaq4 and stripping whitespace, check out trim() by japhy; a really neat sub that wraps and builds upon the FAQ-recommended solution. --k.	[reply]