Re: How to count the number of whitespaces at the start of a line

[Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan]

On Aug 20, Paul Johnson said:

>On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 08:27:41AM -0400, Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan wrote:
>
>>   $str =~ /\s*/;
>>   my $leading = length $1;
>
>that would be
>
>    $str =~ /(\s*)/;

Err, yes.  My mistake.

>> ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 **
>
>But I'm sure you knew that ;-)

Irony will kill me.

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