On Aug 20, Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan said: > my $leading = $str =~ /(\s*)/ && length $1; Or, if you're using Perl 5.6: my $leading = $str =~ /\s*/ && $+[0]; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to count the number of whitespaces at the start of a line
Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:22:53 -0700
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