Perl Whitespace Reg Expression

[Jorge Almeida]

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Steve Jardine wrote:

> Alright you Perl Heads, here's one for you.
> 
>     I have a line like this:
> 
> 
>     abcdef<1 to many spaces>more text
> 
> 
>     I want to use the splt command so I can get to the "more text" part of the
> line, but I do not know how many spaces there may be - it could vary. So, 
> 
> @line = split(/ /, $_); 
> $line[1] = ...
> 
@line = split(/ +/, $_);
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Jorge Almeida