Re: \s matches newline in regex?

You can also use a positive lookahead in the regex to avoid replacing the newline char.

$line =~ s/Hi\s*(?=\n)//;
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Re^2: \s matches newline in regex? by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jul 22, 2015 at 23:31 UTC
If there were repeated, contiguous newlines, that would only avoid replacing the final newline. `c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le "my $line = qq{HeHi\n\n\nHo}; print qq{[$line]}; ;; $line =~ s/Hi\s*(?=\n)//; print qq{[$line]}; " [HeHi Ho] [He Ho]` [download] Give a man a fish: `<%-(-(-(-<`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: \s matches newline in regex? by stevieb (Canon) on Jul 22, 2015 at 23:38 UTC
Yes, I'm aware of that, but it would have been prudent for me to have pointed that out. Thanks AnomalousMonk. -stevieb	[reply]