in reply to Re^2: Regex in if statement
in thread Regex in if statemetn

Sure they do:

$ cat 1078855.pl
use warnings;
use strict;

while (<DATA>) {
    print if /^#\s*[a-z]+/i;
}

__DATA__
#MO
# MO
#mo
# mo
# 555
$ perl 1078855.pl 
#MO
# MO
#mo
# mo
$

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