Hi
I am new to all of this so please forgive me if my question is either really obvious or indeed in the wrong forum.
I have had a script written for me that displays details of books e..t. title, author etc.
The string which holds the author seems to always have a space at the beginning of it. How can I remove the space (or indeed whatever other invisible character it is)?
The string value is $auth and the relevant part of the code (I think) is as follows:
if ($productauthor =~ /\|\|/i) {
@auth = split(/\|\|/, $productauthor);
foreach $auth (@auth) {
$auth =~ s/^\s+//g;
$auth =~ s/\s+$//g;
$authorurl .= "\ \;<a href=\"search.cgi?key=$auth&author=1\">$auth</a>\ \;";
}
}else {
$authorurl = "<a href=\"search.cgi?key=$productauthor&author=1\">$productauthor</a>";
}
If anyone can help me I would be most grateful.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Regards
Mark