Re: Re: Re: Remove leading spaces (left justify)

Sorry. I misunderstood you. This would do it.

$s =~ s[^ ][]mg while  not $s =~ m[^[^ ]]mg;
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Remove leading spaces (left justify) by bobn (Chaplain) on May 17, 2003 at 19:49 UTC
Very concsie, but gets very slow for big strings with lots of space, as it will loop through the entire string once for each leading space it removes. Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com	[reply]