more bash! regex substitution to crop trailing whitespaces

[Kevin Cozens]

Madison Kelly wrote:
>     # Leading spaces off of VAL
>     if [[ "$VAL" =~ '(\s+)(.*)' ]]; then
>     {
>         VAL=${BASH_REMATCH[2]};
>     }

You should consider changing the if statement to anchor the pattern match to 
the start of the string.

     if [[ "$VAL" =~ '^(\s+)(.*)' ]]; then

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