Perl best practices (was: question ... Split operator in Perl)

[John Abreau]

On Wed, September 12, 2007 9:37 pm, Ben Scott said:

> s/^[\x20\t]*//; # trim leading space
> s/[\x20\t]*$//; # trim trailing space
>

Any particular reason to use [\x20\t] instead of \s ?


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