leading spaces and Perl.

[Stewart C.Russell]

Sergey Kuznetsov wrote:
> 
> $Uname =~ s/(?:^\s+|\s+$)//g;

I suspect that the classic two-liner of:

s/^\s+//;
s/\s+$//;

would be at least as quick, easier to understand, and less error-prone.

 Stewart


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