String::Trim3pm

Usage

    use String::Trim;
    print "Do it? ";
    trim(my $response = <>);
    print "'$response'\n";

Version

version 0.005

Overview

"String::Trim" trims whitespace off your strings. chomp trims only $/ (typically, that's newline), but "trim" will trim all leading and trailing whitespace.

Functions

    my $var     = ' my string  ';
    my $trimmed = trim($var);
    # OR
    trim($var);

    my @to_trim = (' one ', ' two ', ' three ');
    my @trimmed = trim(@to_trim);
    # OR
    trim(@to_trim);
    # OR
    my $trimmed = trim(\@to_trim);
    # OR
    trim(\@to_trim);

Rationale

"trim" is often used by beginners, who may not understand how to spin their own. While String::Util does have a "trim" function, it depends on Debug::ShowStuff, which depends on Taint, which fails the test suite, and doesn't appear to be maintained. This module installs, is actively maintained, and has no non-core dependencies.

Other options include Text::Trim and String::Strip (which is implemented in XS, and is therefore likely to be very fast, but requires a C compiler).

Source

The development version is on github at <http://github.com/doherty/String-Trim> and may be cloned from <git://github.com/doherty/String-Trim.git>

Bugs and limitations

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at <https://github.com/doherty/String-Trim/issues>.

Credits

This module was inspired by code at <http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=36684> written by japhy (Jeff Pinyan), dragonchild, and Aristotle. This Perl module was written by Mike Doherty.

Copyright and license

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Mike Doherty.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.