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⭐ in reply to How do I remove whitespace at the beginning or end of my string?

One line is just as good. 
#replace 0 or more whitespaces at the beginning
#     or 0 or more whitespaces at the end
#     with nothing
$string =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;

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Credit to perlmonkey for corrections to original post -- Ed.
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