Re^4: Regular Expression Help!

I don't understand why you won't just use:

if ($var =~ /^\s*$/)
{
    # Do blank procedure
}
else
{
    # Do nonblank procedure
}
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Re^5: Regular Expression Help! by Anonymous Monk on Jul 06, 2010 at 13:30 UTC
I was reading on this posting and found an interesting regular expression, can someone explain what is happening here? `if ($var =~ /^\s*$/)` [download] Thanks!	[reply] [d/l]