Re: How do I remove whitespace at the beginning or end of my string?

[infinityandbeyond]

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;

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