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

[Paul Johnson]

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*)/;

OR

    my $leading = length $&;

> ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 **

But I'm sure you knew that ;-)

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