Thanks for this excellent and illuminating meditation.

OTOH, I feel there's no need to call for the perl porters to include this little wishlet into their big task list. It's trivial to work around this problem (once you know it exists, admitted - that's something for the HTML::Parser docs, or maybe the Perl FAQ). And it even looks more readable: 

use HTML::Entities;

my $html = ' ';
my $text = HTML::Entities::decode_entities($html);

print "\$text = '$text'\n";

my $whitespace = "[\s\240]";

if ($text =~ /^$whitespace$/) {
    print "yes\n";
} else {
    print "no\n";
}

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In reply to Re: Spaced Out by clemburg
in thread Spaced Out by MeowChow

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