I would have never thought to put in a plain old space character in a regular expression---I've just never even seen it done before. Interesting and thanks.

Update: I should be putting these kinds of comments in the chatterbox, no?

$PM = "Perl Monk's";
$MCF = "Most Clueless Friar Abbot";
$nysus = $PM . $MCF;
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