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From:
Christian Walde
Date:
March 27, 2021 00:58
Subject:
Re: Let's talk about trim() so more
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op.00v2bxuaydyjqt@xenwide.vpn.udag.de
On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 01:53:54 +0100, B. Estrade <brett@cpanel.net> wrote:

> At the end of the day, it seems to me that the real motivation for this is to eliminate this idiom:
>chomp($foo);
> $foo =~ s/^ *//g; # or however YOU do it

Nope, the motivation is to replace this:

$a =~ s/^\s+//; $a =~ s/\s+$//;

Which is like 1600+ times on cpan. https://grep.metacpan.org/search?q=%5C%5E%5C%5Cs%5C%2B%5B%5E%5C0%5D%2B%5C%5Cs%5C%2B%5C%24%7C%5C%5Cs%5C%2B%5C%24%5B%5E%5C0%5D%2B%5C%5E%5C%5Cs%5C%2B&qd=&qft=

That said, i also recommend asking the author, Scott, for his motivation. :)

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With regards,
Christian Walde
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