[ic] Per Question - Off Topic

[Stefan Hornburg Racke]

Jack Lauman <jlauman@nwcascades.com> writes:

> I get a currency exchange report emailed to me every night with the
> closing rates on Wall Street and want to convert it to a csv file.
> 
> I need to strip the leading and trailing spaces from two numeric
> (floating point) fields: $usd_unit and $units_usd.

You're obviously not that a Perl hacker :-;

Use:

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

Ciao
        Racke


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