leading spaces and Perl.

[Fraser Campbell]

On Friday 24 October 2003 13:42, Lance F. Squire wrote:

> I've recently found that users can enter data with leading spaces. I'm
> attempting to kill this without losing the between word spaces.
>
> s/\s+//; removes all spaces.
> s/^\s//; and s/^\s//; don't seem to work.
>
> Am I missing something?

A + in the second expression ...

    my $x = '       adsf asdf asdf adsf asdf';
    $x =~ s/^\s+//;

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