My fellow monks, I sit before my window to the all-mighty monastery (thats means my monitor) in a state of confussion. I seek to be enlightened by those of greater wisdom.

I am trying to use a regular expression to convert the string (without the quotation marks, of course) below.

"AGC LCD-S                                                   8  12X12               WHITE"

I run the following expression on the string:

($BKSIC_MODEL[$i]) = substr ($line, 3, 7) =~ m/^\s*(.*)\s*$/;

You would expect $BKSIC_MODEL[$i]'s content to equal "LCD-S" (without the quotation marks, of course) right?

Well the result I get is: " LCD-S " (without the quotation marks, of course).

Please help me slove this strange problem.

In reply to Removing spaces, again. by akm2

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