How to ignore/replace all whitespaces,tab spaces, new line from a given string in REGEX ??

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How to ignore/replace all whitespaces,tab spaces, new line from a given string in REGEX??
How to do it in a following string ??

$name="
       product
";
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Re: How to ignore/replace all whitespaces,tab spaces, new line from a given string in REGEX ?? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 21, 2005 at 14:36 UTC
By "ignore", do you mean "remove"? `$name =~ s/\s+//g;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Thanks !! (Re: How to ignore/replace all whitespaces,tab spaces, new line from a given string in REGEX ??) by sugarkannan (Novice) on Nov 21, 2005 at 14:54 UTC
Thanx a lot !! It worked for me !! -Sugar	[reply]
Re: Thanks !! (Re: How to ignore/replace all whitespaces,tab spaces, new line from a given string in REGEX ??) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 21, 2005 at 15:40 UTC
Keep in mind that will remove the spaces between words too. If you just want to remove the leading and trailing spaces, use: `$name =~ s/^\s+//; $name =~ s/\s+$//;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to ignore/replace all whitespaces,tab spaces, new line from a given string in REGEX ?? by davorg (Chancellor) on Nov 21, 2005 at 14:40 UTC
Not sure what you mean by "ignore" all white space, and you don't say what you want to "replace" it with, so this code just removes all white space. `$name =~ s/\s//g;` [download] -- <http://dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply] [d/l]