NAME

       String::Trim - trim whitespace from your strings

VERSION

       version 0.005

SYNOPSIS

           use String::Trim;

           print "Do it? ";
           trim(my $response = <>);
           print "'$response'\n";

DESCRIPTION

       "String::Trim" trims whitespace off your strings. chomp trims only $/ (typically, that's
       newline), but "trim" will trim all leading and trailing whitespace.

FUNCTIONS

   trim
       Returns the string with all leading and trailing whitespace removed. Trimming undef gives
       you undef. Alternatively, you can trim in-place.

           my $var     = ' my string  ';
           my $trimmed = trim($var);
           # OR
           trim($var);

       "trim" also knows how to trim an array or arrayref:

           my @to_trim = (' one ', ' two ', ' three ');
           my @trimmed = trim(@to_trim);
           # OR
           trim(@to_trim);
           # OR
           my $trimmed = trim(\@to_trim);
           # OR
           trim(\@to_trim);

RATIONALE

       "trim" is often used by beginners, who may not understand how to spin their own. While
       String::Util does have a "trim" function, it depends on Debug::ShowStuff, which depends on
       Taint, which fails the test suite, and doesn't appear to be maintained.  This module
       installs, is actively maintained, and has no non-core dependencies.

       Other options include Text::Trim and String::Strip (which is implemented in XS, and is
       therefore likely to be very fast, but requires a C compiler).

AVAILABILITY

       The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
       (CPAN). Visit <http://www.perl.com/CPAN/> to find a CPAN site near you, or see
       <http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-Trim/>.

       The development version lives at <http://github.com/doherty/String-Trim> and may be cloned
       from <git://github.com/doherty/String-Trim.git>.  Instead of sending patches, please fork
       this project using the standard git and github infrastructure.

SOURCE

       The development version is on github at <http://github.com/doherty/String-Trim> and may be
       cloned from <git://github.com/doherty/String-Trim.git>

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

       No bugs have been reported.

       Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at
       <https://github.com/doherty/String-Trim/issues>.

CREDITS

       This module was inspired by code at <http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=36684> written by
       japhy (Jeff Pinyan), dragonchild, and Aristotle. This Perl module was written by Mike
       Doherty.

AUTHORS

       •   Mike Doherty <doherty@cpan.org>

       •   Jeff Pinyan <pinyan@cpan.org>

       •   Rob Kinyon <rkinyon@cpan.org>

       •   Αριστοτέλης Παγκαλτζής (Aristotle Pagaltzis) <aristotle@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Mike Doherty.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.