Thanks for this excellent and illuminating meditation.
OTOH, I feel there's no need to call for the perl porters
to include this little wishlet into their big task list.
It's trivial to work around this problem (once you know
it exists, admitted - that's something for the HTML::Parser
docs, or maybe the Perl FAQ). And it even looks more readable:
use HTML::Entities;
my $html = ' ';
my $text = HTML::Entities::decode_entities($html);
print "\$text = '$text'\n";
my $whitespace = "[\s\240]";
if ($text =~ /^$whitespace$/) {
print "yes\n";
} else {
print "no\n";
}
Christian Lemburg
Brainbench MVP for Perl
http://www.brainbench.com
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