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

Here you go: $x =~ s/\A\s*(.*?)\s*\z/$1/;