Re: How to eliminate white spaces,tabs,new lines at thestart and end of a long string ??

use strict;

my $str = "\n  Sugarkannan is a smart guy    \n";

$str =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/;
print ">$str<\n";
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Prints:

>Sugarkannan is a smart guy<
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Update: s/printf/print/

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

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Re^2: How to eliminate white spaces,tabs,new lines at thestart and end of a long string ?? by friedo (Prior) on Nov 24, 2005 at 07:38 UTC
Any particular reason you used `printf` instead of `print`? Or just force of habit from C? Just curious.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: How to eliminate white spaces,tabs,new lines at thestart and end of a long string ?? by GrandFather (Saint) on Nov 24, 2005 at 09:59 UTC
Naughty slip of the finger! 'twould be much better as `print`. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply] [d/l]