Quick question, spaces..

Quick question, since I'm kind of busy right now I can't experiment, but...
if you have a textbox and you type in
"Joe Smith " (with spaces at the end)
will your $var contain "Joe Smith" or "Joe Smith " with the spaces?

How about with spaces in front, " Joe Smith"?

I'm asking because theres's this problem with one of my scripts that I have never experienced and I think it might be because of excess space padding.

You will get the spaces on either side. I experimented to be sure.

When you think about it, there wouldn't be much need for a function like 'chop' if Perl automatically took care of space padding.