Re: trim leading & trailing whitespace

s[^\s*(.*)\b\s*$][$1]

Update: Corion rightly points out that this does not work correctly for lines where the last non whitespace character is a non-words character. Eg.

    the quick brown fox (   \n
#                       ^
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So, use s[^\s*(.*\S)\s*$][]; instead. It's slower, but still quicker than the FAQ method.

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Re^2: trim leading & trailing whitespace by ady (Deacon) on Mar 30, 2005 at 08:46 UTC
Good one too (needs the gm modifiers to do the job tho') -- allan	[reply]