Re: trailing spaces

[email protected] (Nicholas Clark) Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:47:57 +0100

Newsgroups	perl.riscos
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:07:59PM +0000, Colin Foster wrote:
> Hi,                       
> 
> Is there an easy way to remove the trailing
> spaces in the string "TRAILING SPACES     "

You seem to be missing a closing quote on that.

Probably the easiest way is with a regular expression. If your string is in
$a, then

   $a =~ s/ +$//;

will strip spaces from the end.

Nicholas Clark