Re: counting leading white spaces

"Counting whitespace" doesn't make much sense. Did you mean "counting whitespace characters"?

/^(\s*)/ && length($1)
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Update: Presuming a scalar context,

() = /\G\s/g
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also works.

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Re^2: counting leading white spaces by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Feb 11, 2009 at 20:20 UTC
Or: `/^\s*/ && $+[0]` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: counting leading white spaces by Anonymous Monk on Nov 10, 2015 at 19:53 UTC
what does () = /\G\s/g do??	[reply]