I need to add a a check to stored string variables in order to make sure no spaces appear in the string stored in the variable. Here's the code that I have so far, but it is giving me syntax errors.

if ($vinputfilelocation =~ m//s/)
    {
    print LOG "There is a whitespace in the input file location parame
+ter, please remove it. \n";
    }

if ($vlagfilepathname =~ m//s/)
    {
    print LOG "There is a whitespace in the flag file location paramet
+er, please remove it. \n";
    }
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Do you have any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?