Ok, My problem is this little white space at the end of my variables... I need to figure out howto get rid of it, how would I through pattern matching?

The variable with the whitespace at the end is for displaying a graphic.. so I have:


IE doesn't mind the space, it still displays the images... It's netscape that doesn't like them.. I've also created doubles of each graphic to make sure, by renaming the gfx to 'blah_3000 . gif'

How would I chop the whitespace from lets say:

Cuz what I do is append the .gif to it...

so the problem is in $blah right away...

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks...
--Jacob
jacob@123webmaster.com

IF you know there is a trailing space every time, find out why It's better to get rid of the source of the errror.

If there is _always_ a trailing space, use chop($variable) and it will remove the last character.

or s/\s+//g is the pattern to turn any amount (one or more consecutive) of white spaces to nothing in a string.

$variable =~ s/\s+//g

Forgot... the best thing would be to create your file name, then regex it. Might as well do it at the END of the process, and eliminate any other source of error.



[This message has been edited by pugdog (edited July 16, 1999).]

Ok, Thanks! It worked!

--Jacob
jacob@123webmaster.com

Very old post but I do have a similar problem. Have a PHP version of this but need cgi version.
Job at hand. have a script that creates meta tags - these are for a cut 'n paste into another script for creating web bages. Problem being the other script has a problem handling white space and as soon as it encounters it - anything after the first white space is ignored totally and not entered into the database.
Therefore, as was suggested by pugdog, need to get rid of the problem at the source.

I get a 500 error when I put this in the script..: $variable =~ s/\s+//g

What exactly would do this. All help appreciated.

$variable needs to hold the value that you are trying to edit (i.e if the variable was $test, you would use $test =~ xxx ... etc).

Also, be sure you have the ; at the end of the line.. otherwise that will cause a 500 IS Error

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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