NAME
    String::Trim - trim whitespace from your strings

VERSION
    version 0.003

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.git> 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.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
    No bugs have been reported.

    Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at
    <http://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.

