in reply to Re: Match the starting \>
in thread Match the starting \>
...does nothing different
it could do something different, though, if you stick more closely to what the original code was:
if (/</) { s/^<\s//; # remove "< " at beginning of line # ...do something with lines that do/did contain a '<' anywhere }
(not sure whether that is what the OP intended, though...)
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