leading spaces and Perl.

[Lance F. Squire]

Fraser Campbell wrote:
> 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+//;
> 

Sorry,

 >>s/^\s//; and s/^\s//; don't seem to work.

should have read:

 >>s/^\s+//; and s/^\s//; don't seem to work.

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