more bash! regex substitution to crop trailing whitespaces

[Madison Kelly]

Kevin Cozens wrote:
> 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
> 

You are indeed right. :)

Madi
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