On Sun, 2020-10-18 at 12:10 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote: > print index(" \t.,;?!", ''); > > It output 0 in my case. So last words on a line seems to work. > I don't know if this changes with the perl version though. > > So given this, will it be necessary to change end_char to ' ' ? > or perhaps change both start_char and end_char to a ' ' to maintain > uniformity?
It seems it's fine even back to perl 5.6, so it's fine as is. cheers, Joe