On 10-12-27 06:30 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
yes, you have misunderstood it. where did you read or learn that /x ignores whitespace in the data?
He probably got the idea since other non-alphanumeric characters in a variable must be escaped; un-escaped ones act like meta-characters.
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