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On 3/26/21 7:58 PM, Christian Walde wrote: > 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= Okay; well in this case my personal preference is to see a trim that misbehaves as chomp does; even if it trims both sides. That boils down to affecting the value in-place - or rather not introducing another special case of explicit string manipulation that behaves differently than one the one provided; the rest remaining on that crusty old regex thing. > > > That said, i also recommend asking the author, Scott, for his > motivation. :) Okay, Scott? Inquiring minds would like to know :) Thank you, Brett >Thread Previous | Thread Next