#!/usr/bin/perl; use LWP; use strict; use warnings; my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; my $r = $ua->get("http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=231795"); if ($r->is_success) { if ($r->content =~ m/^\s+\S/m) { print "I saw some trailing spaces...\n"; } else { print "Oppsie! I did not see any trailing spaces...\n"; } } else { die "Failed miserably\n"; }