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Removing preceeding space

I am trying to find if a certain string is found in a file.
I noticed that when i read from the file and split each line into tokens the token with which i wnat to test the search string is always preceeded with spaces.Hence the pattern matching alwasy fails, is there any function which would remove the whitespaces in a string(like how chomp behaves, removing the new line)
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Amulya

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is it possible to create a pattern matching rule which ignores spaces .
$token1=" value1"
$search="value1"
I tried ($token =~/^$search)
i do not know exactly how many spaces will preceed token1.

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shlomoy

$findme="some text you want to find";
open(IN,$filename) or die "Can't open $filename: $!\n";
$file_content=join '',<IN>;
close(IN);
if ($file_content=~m/$findme/s) {
# found!
} elsif ($file_content=~m/$findme/si) {
# found case insensitive
} else {
#not found!
}

aravindin2k

may be u can say

$word =~ /^(\s|\s+|$search)

by this way u can escape if the space is present like what i mean is that the search will get okay

hilltop

$search =~ s/\n//gs;

hilltop

$search =~ s/\s//gs;

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