Hi Monks!

I am trying to check a string for spaces and only do the further "split" if a word has a space followed by another letter/word in the string. I can't match if the string is like this: "John ".
You can see on the sample code what I am trying to do, I hope:
...
my $name = "John Doe Joe"; # should match
my $name = "John D";       # should match
my $name = "John ";        # should not match
my $name = "John";         # should not match

# Match only if after a space it find a letter
if($name=~/[\s+.]+/) {
     
   @values = split /[\s+.]+/, $name;

   print "\n@values\n";

}else{

      print "\n No spaces: $name\n";

  }
...

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Thanks for looking!

In reply to Check for Spaces in a String by Anonymous Monk

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