Left trim- ltrim or lstrip removes white spaces from the left side of a string:

[perl]
$str =~ s/^\s+//;
[/perl]

Right trim – rtrim or rstrip removes white spaces from the right side of a string:

[perl]
$str =~ s/\s+$//;

[/perl]

Trim Both

[perl]
$str =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g

[/perl]

[perl]

my $x = trim (” HELLO “);

sub trim($)
{
# Remove LEft and right additional spaces
my $string = shift;
$string =~ s/^\s+//;
$string =~ s/\s+$//;
return $string;
}

[/perl]

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