Pattern Matching

[BryanY]

I was wondering what symbol/syntax to use that would represent any type of whitespace.

Basically i need to split each of the words in a string into seperate array elements. The only issue is that the words are seperated by an undefined amount of spaces or tabs.

@data = split (/ /, $_); # what should i use for the pattern match?

 

[cchubb]

Whitespace is the \s symbol. That will match spaces and tabs. If you want a true whitespace handler then add on the other "white" items like line feeds:

[\s\n]
or
[\s\0x0A\0x0D] (In case you want to handle both UNIX and DOS files)

 

[PaulTEG]

\s+

--Paul



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