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Re: Perl expression

On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 18:48:49 +0530
"Adityan Murthy" <ad_it@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Could someone tell me a regular expression to remove leading spaces in a 
> string?  For example in "       Hello World", i want to remove all the 
> spaces *before* hello.
> 

$str = "       Hello World";
my($noleadingspaces) = $str =~ m/\s*(.*)/;

Deepak Joglekar
joglekar@xxxxxxx