Is there a Perl-compatible regular expression to trim whitespace from both sides of a string?

Question

Is there a way to do this in one line?

$x =~ s/^\\s+//;
$x =~ s/\\s+$//;

In other words, remove all leading and trailing whitespace from a stri

Answer 1

Funny you should bring this up!

I recently read an article analyzing the performance of twelve (!) different trim implementations.

Although the article specifically uses the JavaScript regex implementation, it uses Perl syntax, so I think it's apropos to this discussion.