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Simple search for remove space end yields How do I remove whitespace at the beginning or end of my string?Found in perlfaq4 How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string? Although the simplest approach would seem to be $string =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/; not only is this unnecessarily slow and destructive, it also fails + with embedded newlines. It is much faster to do this operation in two s +teps: $string =~ s/^\s+//; $string =~ s/\s+$//; Or more nicely written as: for ($string) { s/^\s+//; s/\s+$//; } This idiom takes advantage of the "foreach" loop's aliasing behavi +or to factor out common code. You can do this on several strings at once +, or arrays, or even the values of a hash if you use a slice: # trim whitespace in the scalar, the array, # and all the values in the hash foreach ($scalar, @array, @hash{keys %hash}) { s/^\s+//; s/\s+$//; }
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