Do we have a mature, powerful Perl library to support text/string operation ? for example, if I need to trim a string, I need to write a function like below. Then question is, do we have an existing API so that I can import and call it ? just like StringUtils.trim(s) in Apache Common Lang. Thanks. sub trim($) { my $string = shift; $string =~ s/^\s+//; $string =~ s/\s+$//; return $string; }