Re^3: Determing if this regex matched

[merlyn]

in reply to Re^2: Determing if this regex matched
in thread 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";
    }
}

[cormanaz]

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.