Re^3: Determing if this regex matched

Too much work!

my @items = ('"Title Text Example"', 'Title Text Example', ' Title Tex
+t Example ',' "Title Text Example"');
foreach (@items) {
    if (s/^[\s"]+// or s/[\s"]+$//) {
        print "$_\n";
    }
}
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Re^4: Determing if this regex matched by cormanaz (Deacon) on Aug 06, 2011 at 20:30 UTC
That's what toolic had before editing the his post. Doesn't work because if the first element of the or evaluates true the second one doesn't get evaluated, so if there's a quote/space at the beginning, quotes/spaces get left at the end.	[reply]