in reply to Re: searching backwards in a string
in thread searching backwards in a string
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while($text =~ /(.{0,80})\s+/g) {
# result in $1
}
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I believe that the above snippet is an infinite loop. However, if TEXT is a filehandle then while(<TEXT> =~ /(.{0,80})\s+/g){ # result in $1 } should kill all trailing space and line returns.
Isn't that what chomp is for, though?
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