Perl Text processing on a variable before its usage
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I wrote a perl script whihc will output a list containing similar entries like below:

    $var = ' whatever'

$var contains: a single quote, a space, the word **whatever**, single quote

actually, this is key of a hash and i want to pull the value for the same. but due to the single quotes and a space in betweene, i am not able to pull the hash key value.

So, i want to strip $var as below:

    $var = whatever

meaning remove the single quote, the space and the trailing single quote. 

so that I can use $var as hash key to pull the respective value.

could you guide me on a perl oneliner for the same.

thnaks.