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regex matches when it seems that it shouldn't

by Lotus1 (Vicar)
on Apr 21, 2021 at 18:46 UTC ( [id://11131541]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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  1. or download this
    use warnings;
use strict;
...
print "  - contains whitespace 2\n" if m/^\s+$/;
  2. or download this
    >perl -MO=Deparse test.pl

...
print "  - contains whitespace 2\n" if /^\s+$/;
07_test.pl syntax OK

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