in reply to Removing whitespace

s/\s*//g; will remove all the whice space in your var, as to your specfic one, you could do something like (split /\,/,$user)[1] Which would return the word after the second comma and before the third (if there is one). And have you tried super search?

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Re^2: Removing whitespace
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 09, 2010 at 22:26 UTC

    It can be done like this - 

    $data="  abc  "

# Remove all spaces
$data=~ s/ //g;

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    Output - abc

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