Yah, so I was lazy and I cheated a bit. $foo will look good when you print it though. What can I say, there are reasons I am a perl programmer.

But to be all official like and actually update the scalar value to be a proper string of length 4 you can use this code for rmsp: 
void rmsp(SV * sv) {
  char * end;
  int length;
  if( !SvPOK(sv) ) return;
  end = SvEND(sv);
  length = SvCUR(sv);
  end--; /* skip \0 */
  while( *end == ' ' && length >=0 ) { 
    end--;
    length--;
  }
  if( length >= 0 ) SvCUR_set(sv, length);
}

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And the new results I got are: 
Benchmark: timing 1000000 iterations of inline, regex...
    inline:  6 wallclock secs ( 4.19 usr +  0.01 sys =  4.20 CPU)
     regex:  9 wallclock secs ( 7.71 usr +  0.02 sys =  7.73 CPU)

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Removing Trailing Whitespace: Multiple ways. by perlmonkey
in thread Removing Trailing Whitespace: Multiple ways. by DeaconBlues

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