Re: simple regex problem

[Ramprasad]

Ramprasad wrote:
hello all,

I have a file read into a single string, and I want to write a regex 
that will tell me wether the file contains any non hashed line

This is my test script



#!/usr/bin/perl
#
{
local($/)=undef;
$str=<DATA>;
}
print $str;
if($str=~/^\s*[^#]/m){
  print "NOT ENTIRELY COMMENT";
} else {
  print "ENTIRELY COMMENT";
}
print "\n";


__DATA__
## FORWARD
## FORWARD
## VACATION
## VACATION
__END__
But my regex fails in case of any blank lines or lines containing all 
white space

Can anyone help me out

Thanks
Ram


Ok guys, I came up with a trick myself

No I am doing
$str=~/^\s*[^\s\#]/m
instead of
$str=~/^\s*[^#]/m
Thanks anyway
Ram


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