RE: Perl expression

[Prashant Ramachandra <rprash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

$string =~ s/^  *// # Two spaces after ^.

Prashant TR

On Thursday, January 04, 2001 6:49 PM, Adityan Murthy
[SMTP: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.
| 
| Thanks in advance.



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