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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Leading and Trailing Spaces Post 42400 by sleepster on Tuesday 28th of October 2003 07:46:02 PM
Old 10-28-2003
Leading and Trailing Spaces
Hi,

how to i remove leading and trailing spaces from a line? the spaces can be behind or in front of any field or line

example of a line in the input data:

Amy Reds , 100 , /bin/sh

how to i get it to be: Amy Read,100,/bin/sh

i saw something on this on the Man pages for AWK but i dont really understand what it was talking about.. could someone help?

thanks
 

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	  blib/lib/TM/LTM/Parser.pm	 95.7	62.5   50.0  100.0    0.0    0.0   87.1
	  blib/lib/TM/Literal.pm	 45.8	 0.0   11.8   30.0    0.0    0.4   24.2
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	  blib/lib/TM/ResourceAble.pm	 88.1	87.5	n/a  100.0  100.0    0.0   90.0
	  .../TM/ResourceAble/MLDBM.pm	100.0	75.0	n/a  100.0    0.0    0.0   94.2
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	  .../TM/Serializable/AsTMa.pm	 99.1	87.9   66.7  100.0  100.0    0.0   94.2
	  ...TM/Serializable/Dumper.pm	100.0	 n/a	n/a  100.0    0.0    0.0   93.5
	  ...ib/TM/Serializable/LTM.pm	 94.1	 n/a	n/a   83.3  100.0    0.0   92.0
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	  blib/lib/TM/Tree.pm		100.0	57.1   44.4  100.0   66.7    0.0   88.0
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	  yapp/astma-fact.yp		 96.9	91.5   73.3   97.8    0.0    4.8   92.7
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