How should that be implemented? I think this should work just like all forms of the built-in chomp except it should remove more than trailing newlines. However, the argumentless form doesn't seem to work (doesn't propagate the lvalue context on the caller's $_) as I would expect it should. What's the right way of falling back to the caller's lvalue $_ if there's no arguments? 
sub trim
{
    @_ = ($_) if not @_;  # doesn't work
    foreach (@_)
    {
        s/^\s*//;
        s/\s*$//;
        s/\n\z//s;
    }
    return wantarray? @_ : $_[0];
}

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In reply to Re: Re: Fastest (Golfish) way to strip whitspace off ends. by halley
in thread Fastest (Golfish) way to strip whitspace off ends. by EvdB

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