Perl Whitespace Reg Expression

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005, Collins Richey wrote:
>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.

Right!  My perl's getting rusty as I've been doing most of my
development in python for the last year or so (with lots of
commented curly braces to make vi's % key happy :-).

Bill
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