Perl Whitespace Reg Expression

Collins Richey crichey
Sun Oct 9 12:16:24 PDT 2005


On 10/9/05, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:

>
> my @line = split('\s', $_);
>

Just a minor nitpick. I use

   my @line = split('\s+', $_);

To account for one or many whitespaces.

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan



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