Re: When is a trailing space not a trailing space?

Run your HTML file through od or some other tool that displays the numerical value of each character. My guess (possibly wrong) is that it's the non-breaking space character, which is not matched by \s (and shouldn't be, in my opinion).

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Re^2: When is a trailing space not a trailing space? by markguy (Scribe) on Oct 17, 2005 at 15:03 UTC
It absolutely shouldn't match if it's not a space character... I've just never had so much trouble seeing what the character is and getting rid of it. It makes me wonder what else has snuck into tables I've been working with all because the invisible character wasn't at the end where I'm regularly look to clean up. In any case, I'll give od a shot... thanks!	[reply]
Re^3: When is a trailing space not a trailing space? by bluto (Curate) on Oct 17, 2005 at 16:40 UTC
It makes me wonder what else has snuck into tables I've been working with all because the invisible character wasn't at the end where I'm regularly look to clean up. Rather than cutting out unwanted characters, you may want to only match what you know to be ok for the entire line. For example, if you want only printable non-whitespace characters, then match only that (see "perldoc perlre" for more details). Also, you may want to warn/die if you find characters in a line that you don't think should be there.	[reply]