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Re: How can I strip an arbitary number of leading spaces from a string?by chromatic (Archbishop) |
| on Sep 25, 2000 at 20:15 UTC ( [id://33922]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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Use a regex with a quantifier. Use this one if you're not sure there will be any spaces at the start of the string:
$string =~ s/^\s*//; Use this one if you know there will be at least one: $string =~ s/^\s+//; {QA Editors note: As japhy pointed out, the "+" quantifier is preferable over the "*" quantifier, even if it's unknown whether the string being tested has leading whitespace or not. With s/^\s+//;, strings lacking leading whitespace simply will be passed over. Furthermore, the "+" quantifier is faster than the "*" quantifier.}
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