David wrote at Tue, 10 Sep 2002 03:22:52 +0200:

>>> $line =~ /^\s+//;
>> 
>>> $line =~ s/^\s+//;
             ^
> 
> even after looking at your reply for 20 seconds, i still didn't see the 
> differences... :-) how stupid i am? thanks for spot that.

The difference is that the first one doesn't have anything before the slash,
while the second one has an s before.

That's why the first one is only a matching,
while the second one is a substitution,
really removing something.


Greetings,
Janek


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