Is there any way to trim both leading and trailing blanks in a text line (one of the most common operations in text processing; often implemented as trim function which BTW was present in Perl 6) without resorting to regular expressions (which are definitely an overkill for this particular purpose)? This is clearly an important special case.

So far the most common solution is to use something like $line =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g which clearly is an abuse of regex.

See, for example, https://perlmaven.com/trim

Or install String::Util which is a not a standard module and as such creates difficulties in enterprise env.

In reply to How to trim a line from leading and trailing blanks without using regex or non-standard modules by likbez

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