Re: Using s///g to remove carriage returns
Jason wrote:
I've gone through about a dozen options, and none of them work
correctly! This is driving me nuts.
The request is pretty simple: I have a form with a textarea field, and
I want to remove any opening or trailing carriage returns from it
(while leaving any return in the middle). This is the code I tried most
recently, and was certain would work:
$comment =~ s/^\r\n+|^\r+|^\n+|\r\n+$|\r+$|\n+$//g;
But, it doesn't seem to have any impact at all! Correct me if I'm
wrong, but I thought that this broke down like:
Do you guys see what I'm overlooking?
In a nutshell: the precedence of operators (concatenation is an
operator) in regular expressions.
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