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rhizome on May 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: \d less efficient than [0-9]

Use the s/, Luke

    s/^\s+?(.*)\s+?$/$1/g

conroe64 on May 20, 2013 [–]

That wouldn't work. First, it will only grab at only one whitespace character at the beginning and at the end. Second, if there was whitespace at the beginning or the end but not both, it won't match at all. "^\s* (.* ?)\s* $/$1/g" would work.

rhizome on May 20, 2013 | [–]

point being: get rid of the anchors in the alternation.

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